Transcripts For SFGTV Planning Commission 20240711

Shootings, is that in some areas of the city, they have been group involved in games or groups and bayview, inkel tied e and we know theyre tied to previous homicides or homicides that happen in other cities and this is a phase of retaliation sometimes that retaliation has been laid and that is not uncommon. An incident may happen and you may have a retaliation a year later. Thats not uncommon at all. The other thing, in certain districts like in the tenderlo tenderloin, the degree of our shootings are by narcotics activity. Weve had narcotics related robberies go bad that results in shootings and the like and even some of the once outside of the tenderloin, we know for just based on investigations that that is narcotic related activity. Also, we know that very few of these shootings are just random. We have disputes and an argument that gets out of control and someone ends it with bringing out a gun. That number is not as large as the other two areas than the group involved and i say group because its not a game. It could be this neighbourhood versus that neighbourhood or that type of thing. We do know that the percentage of our shootings are related to that and the do you track any other types of violence in the city . When you talked about arson on the presentation, shooting victims, do you also deal with sexual assaults . Sexual assaults, yes, we do. Those numbers are much smaller in scope than what were talking about the shootings and we do track them. The majority of those are people that know each other and we get very few stranger, true stranger sexual assaults which is a good thing. The reason why i asked is because, one of the things that we were concerned about, at the beginning of this pandemic, was an increase in Domestic Violence, right. If you have a shelter in place, you have to stay at home. Many women are sheltering with their potential abusers. When you report these, you dont report these numbers. And im curious to know if theres an increase or a trend. An increasing interpreted. I mentioned this earlier that we thought we might anticipate when the pandemic first resulted in a shelter in place, a stay at home. That was a big deal. We took the measures including the text 911 text to really put some measures in place to get some people who are experiencing Domestic Violence, opportunities to call and they cant get to a telephone and that type of thing. We havent seen the increase we thought but i didnt break it out for this report. I could come back to the commission with a breakdown of Domestic Violence and its how tracked pre pandemic and so he have more clarity and i can get more clarity on that. Thank you, and my final question really has to go wit with the staff are our professional Standards Bureau who are responsible for coordinating and really spearheading this work and you know that comes at a need but theres a cost to that when we pull officers out of our stations and investigations or whatever their assignments are. We really dont have a lot of cushion to make those types of moves that we had to by necessity and again its worth while but it comes at a cost. The other thing to this is a lot of the reforms that have been put in place, ill give you one example and not be too long winded are practise time and distance and taking your time. From the fires and and it gives a lot of home that its going to alleviate some of those calls coming to the Police Department and well see how it pans out and it may be annie efficiency that will allow it to have more room and flexibility on some of our deployment. We hope its going to thank you, this is my last question and chief, you really did touch on this because the Mayors Office launched this special Pilot Programme that i guess rams Department Health threaders to respond to those members that are having these mental breaks. I would like you to start to track, in some way, i hope to see a decrease and sfpd interaction in this level of in this type of, i dont know what the word is, engagement, if we can continue to move forward just to be able to quantify the success of the programme and dph will have their numbers and its important to sfpd and it tracks this and keep up with their numbers as well. And im hopeful that well have a positive response that this Pilot Programme will be successful. We absolutely with track it from the beginning and keep the commission informed and im hopeful too. We all are hopeful this would be a good thing. And its successful. Successful alternative. Ok. Thank you, thank you colleagues, madam Vice President. Thank you, commissioner hamasaki. Thank you. Chief, when you are discussing prop e and the staffing, i saw this article in the news, i think it was either yesterday or today, about some sort of agreement that was reached between the poa and i saw your name on it. It relates to i couldnt figure out quite what it is because it doesnt seem to have any clear parameters for what actually it does. And its related to staffing or is more specifically what this letter is. With this letter is a part of this on going conversation commissioner cohen just talked about what we cannot have the Police Respond to. This is part of the mayors, one of her four initiatives of not having the Police Respond to none criminal type of calls when theres no criminal activity at foot and what this letter was was an offshoot of the department has been working with Mayors Office and other city departments on including the department of Emergency Management to identify those calls, those types of calls that fit in that criteria being calls that maybe another department can handle not the Police Department so there were fires and things like that. Some of the Parking Enforcement calls. Some traffic collisions that the p. O. A. Has agreed that yes, we will work with the department to make this happen. Theres still a lot of process that has to go into this and as you stated, if its going to be strength and policy changes its going to have a commission but what were doing right now is really digging into the assessment fees and assess those types of calls and and the poa has agreed to work and the other departments are involved because of and the discussions with those departments and those respective collective bargain unions but this process is just getting underway and this was really a part of the mayors objective to not have us respond to these types of calls. It goes in line with the Police Commission resolution on us responding to those homeless related calls and it goes to the Mental Health response that a lot of people can be better and so that is not doing anything other than that its really an agreement to Work Together and identify those calls and shift away from a Police Response. A lot of that goes to whether we have the capacity of the city to do that. Yeah, i guess, maybe this is my lawyer brain trying to read it but, does this commit anybody to doing anything other than just saying identifying these areas. That is the conversation with all those different players is on going. Why is that the poas decision about what type of calls that they respond to. Its not their decision. Its their decision eventually there are collective bargaining issues that will come to play because its work that they respond to that if theyre going to give up, that could have impact within a scope of legally within the scope of collective bargaining so, they will have to be in this conversation. What theyre saying is, we want to expedite this and this is my interpretation of what theyre saying, were telling you that, were willing to do this and here are the calls and the department identified the calls. The poa has been involved in this conversation and theyre willing partner in terms of shifting these calls away from policing which is what many are asking for and they have a non Police Response to these calls where you dont need an officer with a gun and all the weight of Law Enforcement to handle these calls. I guess to me, it kind of came out of its strange this was released on the same day that the p. O. A. Obtained the 6 raises of people working together. It does not bind them to anything at this point. That actually the reason that came out the way it did if you followed the Board Hearing was part of that was a request by the board to understand what it is that we were working on and that realm so that was part of the reason that letter was requested by the president of the board. And i hadnt seen the news article on it so i dont know what was written about the news articles but it does not bind anybody to anything because theres a whole lot of other work that has to be done. Like i said, really, theres all these other departments and entities that have to agree to this as well and. Its a press release to give people discover for signing off on to a large raise for the police union when the city is facing a massive deficit. I was hoping that it actually bound them to some concrete actions but that does not not seem to be the case. Did you in any point, consider consulting with the commission on this because i would think there would be some areas that perhaps we might want to weigh in on if theres areas that are going to be part of negotiations regarding calls for service. This will have to come to the commission. This effort is being led by and coordinatessed by the Mayors Office and we were asked to participate in it and parts of this conversation were happening before all the calls were reformed because of the george floyd incident. That really can put this to a new level of urgency with all the calls for change and reform and what Police Officers should be responding to and they shouldnt. Theres a lot of coordination that goes to that and being coordinated except theres multiple departments that are involved in these conversations. The commission eventually, to answer your question, has to be involved if theres any policy shift and policy changes. To identify all the groundwork it takes to do that, this is being coordinated by the Mayors Office and at this point, i think its more of identifying those types of calls based on the analysis from d. E. M. And the Police Department of publichealth and the Fire Department of what sits in that and what sits into the categories that we can have a discussion about. Thats what weve done. Ultimately, this is going to have to come back to questions of policy as you just stated. So, moving forward with this process, i think it would be great if you can loop the commission in. When i first saw it in the newspaper, i was a little shocked. I thought there was a agreement to change all of these responses for calls for services and i read it close and i thought this is actually not saying anything substantive other than just kind of like hey, this is what we might do. So, i do think this is an area where the commission should not be involved and weve always had issues or we raised issues of when we were told about things after the fact and decided a contentious discussion and so im glad we learned about it from the media, but i would have loved to learn abou learned abom the department. Heard and understood. Thank you, chief. Thank you. Will you, chief, i was hoping that you could also let us know how this transition by allowing those calls to be diverted to the Police Department to other individuals. How that is going to effect programmes like hsoc and the officers at each district station that respond to homeless issues and other Mental Health issues. Because i think it ties to the staffing issues that would you also raise and since those calls are now going to be diverted, then that frees up officers and rather than increasing staffing levels, maybe its more of a reorganization or re adjustment the officers to areas that are needed since the calls pertaining to Mental Health and homelessness or homeless issues are now being diverted. Because work within that budget. So, i think that would be an interesting presentation and. Only a small group of calls have been averted at this point and thats those calls that are handled by ems6 and it amount to about eight calls per day on average. The Police Department is still handling everything else. The plan is that as we go through each of these categories, the problems that i discussed earlier that we come to an agreement that another department or another entity can handle them and then create a capacity to do that so that is a process thats going to take some time i want to make sure its clear theres only a small group of calls right now that are actually being averted and in a very small area. Its being piloted in the tenderloin and its that area. So its a very small pilot. I think its promising and to your point, it will hopefully allow us and make some reassessments on staffing needs because we already know, based on the current analysis, that were 200 plus officers short. So maybe that will give us some relief there and to not have to hire 200 more officers and maybe that will get some there. We want to make sure that we work hard and we work expediently as possible to put this together and it can be done to put it together and well keep the information for chem and we want to push this forward. Row imagine policing is how its been going and we are there and. Before the last Commission Meeting it was very informative because some of the specialized units, we found that its more beneficial to not have certain specialized units and have them out patrolling. I think theres good stuff and. The number of calls are eight per day and sf can be handling all the and its a sense of what that means all the rest. How much of what kind of volume is sfpd still handling and how long do you think it will take to transition more off sfpds plate at this point . Eight on average is not a hard number. This unit is planning the ems6 will be expanded to six ems6 units in the spring of next year. So, it will expand. To give you an idea of this group, as identified that theres probably about 20,000, 20 to 22,000 calls a year that will fall in this category that were talking about so its volumes of if he with dont have the capacity with these group, someone has to respond to these calls so we have to build a capacity. Hopefully this pilot we can workout the kinks and all that. The Fire Department has been great and publichealth has been great. Theres a lot of details in the the devil is in the details in how we make this transition. [please stand by] i have couple of updates. Currently were at 725 cases that have been open at this point in the year. This time last year, we were at 686 cases in terms of cases that be have closed, we closed 808 cases this time last year we closed 600 cases. Depending on number of cases cas that we have open now are 355 cases today. This time last year, we had 403 open cases. Weve sustained 39 case so far this year. This time last year we sustained 35 cases. We had 34 cases that have been open longer than nine months. This time last year, we were at 23 cases that have been open longer than nine months. Of those 34 cases, 18 of them are told and remain 16 have not been told. We remediated 32 cases this year. At this time last year we remediated 27 cases. We have 32 cases that are pending with the chief right now waiting hearings or decisions. We have 13 cases that are pending with the commission. In terms of the outreach since our last Commission Meeting, we participated in rate Equity Leadership group discussing city wide projects. We also participated and hosted mediationbased Discussion Panel with three volunteers from the d. P. A. And on november 20th, we hosted a virtual d. P. A. 101 informational session for chalk. Chalk is community in harmony acting for learning and kids organization. Were gong a lot with the Youth Commission and may taking meetings with them on their behalf with agencies they identified to learn more as well as know your rights brochure stuff that we helped develop. Upcome, we have couple of events that would be of interest to the commission. We can talk about the them at a later time, i want to Say Something about changes in the election as the chief presented just on some of the oversight reforms taking place in the state just so that Everybody Knows whats going on in the state since the election. We can talk about that at a later time. I want to talk about what the current state of things are as well as where d. P. A. Is in context to these things. I know we have something scheduled in the next few weeks if not months about the local Progress Report that started addressing some of those issues. Lot of those things have changed now in the election. I want to make sure that the public as well as the commissioners are updated where d. P. A. Fits in context with other agencies doing this work. Thats all i have for now. Ill have an overview all of the policy recommendations and all of the policy work in the staff report. Thank you. Thats a great idea about presenting the presentation director henderson. I have two question. The first question is the 39 sustained cases versus 75 from last year. If you can explain the difference. It seemin seem like not past 40. 34 open cases that are older than nine months regarding missing deadlines, i wanted to know why there are so many cases even though 18 are told. I think thats still kind of a high number. Thank you for your question. Im not sure what those numbers are. If ask me to guess, i hate to guess without knowing the specific number. I would guess the numbers were higher than last year. Last year we were sustaining lot of cases with bodyworn camera violations. Lot of them i didnt turn the camera on and i forgot in the training. I dont know if thats the reason. I would guess that had a large part to do or play in the disparities in the numbers from last year versus this year with the new technology being introduced. Remember, we ramped it up. There was a 6month period where we didnt hold the department accountable through the discipline process. We just made record of those transgressions that they occurred. When we started Holding Department accountable with filing, the numbers shot up. I dont know for sure thats the reason. I would guess that was the reason because it took a little bit of time for the department to catch up with their training and the actual practice for those numbers to level back down to what the numbers youre seeing now. Thats what i would guess why we have that spike. In terms of the cases pass the 707 da207 day. Since i took over that position in july 2017, we have never missed one deadline. The deadline is never beyond nine months. I will continue so we dont miss any deadlines since we have not under my leadership. That said, for the numbers that have come in, i go through these numbers and the cases regularly, especially before the meetings. Were talking about 16 cases out of the 34 cases because those are the ones that have been told. Of those, 10 of them came right before the shelterinplace took effect. Those cases are in there and those investigations are taking a little bit longer because of pandemic implications. I will look into i dont have the an answer for the other six i will look into them and let you know. Without you asking the question, that really make sense what all of the numbers means. Thank you for the question. I appreciate it. I will note that you have very diligent about the deadlines. I wanted to raise it, it does seem like a high number and thats one of the greatest fears and the commission as well. Not on my watch. There has been a spike because of the pandemic. Even in my notes here, of those numbers, those came in right before the stayathome and the investigation themselves have been affected by the pandemic. They identified them in case this question came up. Thank you. We all appreciate the incredibly hard work that your has done and continue to do. If you have those numbers next time, that will be really helpful. Were always impressed by the work that you do. Does director henderson submit his report prior to the Commission Meeting. Im not seeing it. Im confused. I dont have the numbers. You should have the numbers. They are normally in the packet. Thank you, i must be overlooking. Thank you. Thats it, thank you. Next item. 2c, commission reports. Commission report will be limit to brief description of activity and announcement. I see no hands. Next item. Was the calendar of future meetings . I think it was everything right . Was it difficult . I called everything, yes. Im going to ask that we schedule donte king here present at the Commission Bias is an extremely important topic which addresses the bias in policing. This revision and all the hard work we did Means Nothing if were not willing to address issues of bias, racism and antiblack sentiments within the department. When the allegations came to light back in february 2020, i asked that this matter be agendized so we can speak get directly to mr. King and address these troubling allegations. Our request was made to investigate the allegations. However, thats not d. P. A. s responsibility or their jurisdiction. As the policy making body of the San Francisco Police Department, it is incumbent upon us to find out the truth of the allegations and address them. Last week i did ask to agendize this item. I believe that what was agendized was a report by d. P. A. With respect to the investigation or what they have done thus far. We must have mr. King appear before the commission to discuss the matter openly and allow fellow commissioners to ask questions and to really examine these allegations. These allegations are very serious. I assume that the chief would also want these allegations addressed given all of the hard work that he has done with respect to the bias policing and his commitment to biasfree policing. Were allowing the issue to continue to fester. Its my understanding that d. P. A. Will be presenting their findings thus far on this matter on december 16th. I spoken with mr. King. He is available december 16th. Im asking to have mr. King appear before the commission to address the issues that were raised in the article and these allegations. Im moving to make a motion to agendize to have mr. King appear before the commission december 16, 2020 to address the issue raised in the exami examir there needs to be a motion or second. I will ask to see if mr. King is available and present when we have commission on december 16th. I have not spoken to him. I try not to bias myself with these things until its before me. If hes available thats great. I asked young blood to make that part of the agenda. I think we can still have a motion just so that it records the commissions intention. This has been going on for a number of months. I raised this and requested it to be put on four months ago. I was told the same thing at that time. I spoke with mr. King. I think its go gotten to a stae where were looking slightly ridiculous were keep asking to have it put on and it never gets put on. I would second commissioner eliass motion. I take offense to this characterization. Ive been trying to put this on the agenda. The idea that the commission may be stymied not having it on the agenda, its salt and wrong. Whatever. We can take a motion and we will all vote for it. Sergeant, please call [indiscernible] members of the public that like to make comment on 2c regarding to the motion to agendize dante king november 16 meeting. Please call 4156550001. Press pound and then pound again. Members of the public already on webex and like to make a Public Comment regarding motion of donte king, please press star 3 now. We have two Public Comments. You have two minutes. Im sorry, i had my hand up wrong. Sorry, ive taken it down. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Im calling to support this motion. I live in district 7. I wanted to encourage you all, i know also including statistics, racial bias in the officerinvolved shootings in other officer violence. Those numbers are important to look at and telling. The question is why is this happening . Thank you. On the motion to agendize dante king [roll call vote] the motion passes. Next item. There was one other thing. Sorry. Commissioner elias the other question was agendize for vote for commission. I like confirmation on that if not i can make a motion. Vice president taylor it wont be held for the 16th. We have a meeting with the working group on the 14th and the public needs to have access before we put it on. We can put it on the meeting after that. First meeting in january. Whatever that meeting in january is. Commissioner elias thank you. The public is welcome to make Public Comment on line item 2. Please call 4156550001. Good evening are you making comment on 2 . Yes, i guess so. Im not sure what line im supposed to be on. Im calling concerning my son. I recently given everyone a [indiscernible] concerning my son being in a gang. I was asking earlier to have everyone to respectfully rite a letter to the fed to ask him to repass that. Lot of our children are being murdered here in San Francisco and labeled and i gave that to Stacy Youngblood to give to all of you and called in back again to ask again if you can do it individually or as a group to the feds about recanting their story. They have no facts. I dont know you can respond to that, i will continue to keep asking as long as you guys are here, as much as ive been coming to the Police Commission. I been around everyone all these years concerning my son. There was never any allegation set for someone want to get a case done or to get their case on someone else but theyre using my child. Im still asking the commission to write a letter to the feds asking them to recant their story. I[background noise] Vice President taylor im hearing lot of background noise. Everyone mute them. Were you finished . Yes, i guess i am. Commissioner hamasaki thank you for sending that along. I took a look at it. I think the challenge for us, i can speak for myself, i dont have the facts to make any decision i completely understand and support your position. For us to make a Statement Like that as a commission, we would have to basically see the facts in that. [indiscernible]. I believe commissioner taylor was involved in the case. It kind of puts in a position thats not really i think everybody here is extremely sympathetic and i dont know if theres another way to support you outside making a factual determination. Were happy and willing. That request probably going to be pretty difficult. You can look at the facts. Its in the paperwork. Its all in there. Its been like for years. You wait 10 years to say that my son is in a gang, i did speak commissioner taylor. It was almost she knows, almost in way not going against her. Just leave it plan. I cant leave it alone. Theres factual facts that my son wasnt in there. It was supposed to be presented but it wasnt. The paperwork that i gave you is all there. If anyone read it and understood how it went, theyre railroading them and its not fair. Its not fair to me either. All ive been asking, i wouldnt be doing this all the years if my son was in something, i wouldnt be asking you. If theres facts that my son wasnt. Thats all im asking for that. Ive been fighting too hard for my son. Too hard for him and to allow this to happen its not fair. Even the person in there, said that, were not complicating your son. The name that you gave me, the name commissioner taylor gave me. He said my son wasnt in a gang. Youre accusing him to be in a gang. Please, im asking this not as a mother, just a mother too, ive been coming to you guys for years and no one has ever given allegation that my son i was ina gang. This is not fair. Doing black lives matter, doing all everything thats going on with our africanamerican being killed by the police and all this for this to happen, its not fair to me as a parent and as my son is a africanamerican young boy. I did everything for my son. I dont understand when i gotten support from the other commissioners that were on the board and the other person that passed the president away. They have written letters for me concerning my son. Vice president taylor ms. Br own. I cant be involved in this for the reasons that the commissioner hamasaki just stated. What i heard you said that the fbi told you that the government did not engage that your son was in allege that your son was in the gang. I dont know if those are the facts. He said he was affiliated with a gang. Affiliation means you were in one. I lived in the neighborhood too. Vice president taylor we all obviously you know we all want your sons murder to be felt. I so want the person who killed your son to be brought to justice. Im going to repeat this. If theres information, please call beyond that, theres nothing more that i can do ms. Brown. As a commission, i cant speak for anyone else. We thank you, we support you coming here. We want the murderer of your son be brought to justice. Were going to have to move on from this topic. Commissioner dejesus i see you in the chat. Ill let you speak. I wanted to add my two cents. Commissioner dejesus i did talk to Sergeant Youngblood perhaps we can talk offline. Please. Vice president taylor thank you ms. Brown. Theres no other Public Comment. Good evening caller, you have two minutes. Im calling to remind you all that when youre publicly picky with each other, it really like very apparent to the public. Franklyyo you look like jackass. In the case commissioner hamasaki every week, claiming credit for everything that happens on board or people very clearly this di leanuation those assigned by the mayor and those by the board of supervisors. Its ridiculous. It erodes public trust and its just disgusting. It doesnt put any faith who you are, having a safe city and to make sure that police are held accountable when doing wrong. You all so terribly dysfunctional. Vice president taylor thank you very much. Next call per that is all the Public Comment. Vice president taylor thank you. Next line item. Presentation of the safe streets for all quarterly report, 3rd quarter 2020. Good evening, im off mute. I started my video. I dont know. You can see it. You can pull up the slides for me. Vice president taylor, commissioners, chief scott, members of the public, watching online, good evening. Im here to make a presentation for the 3rd quarter 2020 safe streets for all. Reminder for everyone during this presentation, Police Department committed to the citys Division Zero strategy to eliminate deaths and reduce serious injury in San Francisco by 2024. We prioritize focus on the file, Traffic Enforcement and high Network Corridor from it first slide and second image, that the representative of the number of corridors throughout the city. These are streets which identified through Statistical Analysis by department of public health. Location is where we have the most frequent occurrence of series injury collision and collision that result in unfortunately fatality. We partnered with the Community Stakeholders and city agencies to expand training and education for all. We promote Traffic Safety and educate the public. In terms of deployment in addition to working with our Public Information office throughout our patrol stations throughout the city to distribute information to Community Members about our efforts. We also use our social media platform on twitter and facebook to now things like bicycle and Pedestrian Safety enforcement operation, then to the right of that image, another addressing parking rounds that were designated out in the district. Other enforcement operations that we do to raise awareness and educate the public and hopefully change behavior. Bottom of the slide youll see advocacy groups were engaged with. This slide is representative of the statistics that we have through our 3rd quarter this year. The Traffic Enforcement efforts and the Traffic Company which are the officers assign to uniform patrol motorcycles. Youll see that the red bars indicate the total number of violations which is 11,743. Blue bar indicate focus on the five violations and the third were up to 6210. Which is a Department Wise average of 53 . Below each station youll see a percentage, which represent the percentage of focus on the five citations for violations that or drivers issued citations for a violation of one of the focus on the five categories. Here we have two graph. These are traffic fatalities from january 1st. The circle graph to the left indicates the mode of transportation that an individual was engaged in during the collision that resulted in a fatality. Pedestrians, unfortunately, are the largest percentage of the total, 19 victims who have died and result being involved in a collision. To the right of that graph, the bar graph indicates the age of the victims, the two groups impacted the most are 30 to 39yearolds and 50 to 59yearold. Vision zero traffic fatality from january to september, the red bars indicate the results from 2019 and the blue bars indicates the results for this year, 2020. For the first three quarters in 2019, there were 23 vision zero traffic fatalities for the same period this year, there has been 15, which is a decrease of 17 . In the next three slides are corollated. That identifies the different locations throughout San Francisco where individuals suffer a fatality as result of being involved in a collision. Pedestrian accounted for the majority 42 of the 19. We have a Network Amount of the city, county of San Francisco. Those corridors are indicated by the blue marking on this map. Which indicates the streets were the most serious injury and fatal collisions that occurred. You see the greatest conversation is within the area of the tenderloin. The dots represents all the fatalities that in that network. On Treasure Island that was a fatality that occurred with a local collision. There were six of those total from the city. I know this is a concentrated map. Theres lot of information there. If you go to the next slide. This slide lays out the locations of all of the dots in that high injury Collision Network map from the previous slide. It indicates the locations types of modes of transportation that were used, for example motorcycle vehicle and pedestrian. Last column indicates the primary collision factor responsible for the collision indicated by vehicle codes. You can see that there are many cases where a determination of primary collision factor has not been determined yet. Thats the end of the Powerpoint Presentation that i have. Are there any questions . Commissioner hamasaki thank you. Good evening. We talked about this at the last presentation about the enforcement aspect showing the effectiveness of that. Do you recall that discussion . Yes, i do. Commissioner hamasaki do you have anything to present on that . Because it was a while ago. Obviously, these numbers are not great. I guess its a little surprising when weve been shut down for most of the year to have numbers comparable to last year, which was a normal crazy San Francisco streets are filled. I dont know if that that means people are driving more crazy. Its obviously not great to see almost 20 fatalities, looks like a pretty wide range vehicles. Since we talked last, were you able to i guess have any changes been made that will give us more hope that our pedestrians, our bicyclist, motorcyclist, skateboarders what can we look forward to really turn this around . This is not i think you addressed working with partners and collaborations. This is not an issue that is all on the departments accountability. These are drivers and theres no way to have an officer on every corner controlling every intersection and so forth. Can you give us some hope . Well, commissioner hamasaki, you do recall you asking the question and we had discussions and one of the projects that were examining now is you asked, do we know can we tell the public that our Enforcement Actions on the Network Corridors in the locations where the collisions are happening, are they having an impact . To that point, were having that discussion. It will involve collaboration with the partners we work with the m. T. A. And department of public health. To answer your question about number of collision. In 2018 we had 30 fatalities and in year we this different stages of shelterinplace order which the Service Provided by m. T. A. With muni. Thats been a reduction of public transit. Theres also become a reduction in traffic on our roads. I cant point to a specific study that would give you numbers or percentage. I can tell you from reading articles on the internet, locally and listening to stories from members of the public about commute times and how commutes have been reduced. About a month ago, there was a discussion about the amount of traffic returning to 90 of prepandemic shelterinplace orders. The traffic return to like well over 90 . I cant speak to how they came to that figure. I did read another article today on the west Side International association of chief of police, they made information about Law Enforcement profession. One article was specific to the issue that youre asking about and it was in wisconsin and may have done a study that shown although traffic have been reduced, dealing with their shelterinplace orders and latest of the pandemic, their fatal collisions risen 32 . One thing i can point im with you 100 . We have to educate people. M. T. A. Is focused on engineering things like whats commonly referred to like daylighting. Lot of members of the public may have seen intersections or streets and cars right at the corner near the crosswalk. Theyve taken those Parking Spaces and removed them and painted the curbs. One thing thats common in all the fatalities here, theres a lot of i want to be respect respectful not criticized people who made a mistake and died. Theres a Common Thread when you look at the last slide, the primary collision factor in lot of the fatalities is speeding. We know has speed increase, the possibility that somebody will die as a result of collision, increases. Its hard somebody may get struck but they maybe able to survive injuries at the lower speed. Reducing speeding, making sure that people give the rightofway, pedestrians and crosswalk. When youre in the crosswalk, vehicle have so stop. If we can change that and change speeding and change people behavior if regards to racing through a red light, whatever term you want to use. When the light turns yellow you should be on the brakes. We still have fatalities as a result. Were hoping to look at all of these locations and majority of our enforcement that we coordinate through m. T. A. Is the about focus on the violations. Were trying to stop fatalities. Thats the message that i relay to all the captains and the conversation that i have with the captain and motorcycle officers. Evaluation piece of it, were working on. Its a big thing to get our hands around. Its going to require coordination with other city agencies so they can gather all this data and get into it and figure out the risk. Commissioner hamasaki is the San Francisco Bike Coalition one of these partners . Yes. I apologize if brian is watching, bria commissioner hamasaki i have spoken to some of them. I know they have some ideas. As long as you folks are in communication, im glad to hear that. Yes, sir. Vice president taylor commis sioner cohen might be having connectivity issue. We were unable to hear you. I can hear you but i cant see you. Commissioner cohen i turned off my camera to get a better connection. Vice president taylor you want to start over . We didnt hear anything. Commissioner cohen thats okay. I turned my camera off. Commander, good evening. The second portion of my question is, i was wondering if the department or this coalition that youre working related to the topic, you guys are used successful strategies of other cities. Are there other cities that have policies that are in place to bring down pedestrian fatalities . Yes, commissioner. I have to tell you, that im sorry, i didnt hear the first part of your question. I can answer the second. Commissioner cohen commissio ner hamasaki answered my first question. The answer is yes, youre talking to the Bike Coalition. Thats important. Second portion of it, are we reviewing other successful strategies in other cities to reduce pedestrian fatalities . For example, i dont know if were looking at flashing markers in crosswalk or overhead flashing lights. I wanted to know are we on the cuttingedge what is being done and considered . I can tell you that i meet regularly i engaged in communication with my partners over at sfmta on a regular basis. This year, the discussion vision zero is an International Sort of strategy its certainly National Strategy here in the united states. Constantly assessment and evaluation in different areas how effective vision zero is and what measures are in place. The conversation this year over the last six months has been about the use of cameras and theres been some significant discussion from partners of Law Enforcement like in other areas like in seattle and oregon about the role of Law Enforcement and Traffic Enforcement specifically how it relates to vision zero. Its multifaceted why conversation is occurring. Couple of reasons largest reason is part of the discussion of equity and impact that Traffic Enforcement have on different groups. Is it equitable, fair and biased. Thats something thats been going on outside Law Enforcement profession as it relates to vision zero as well as within our own profession. The second thing is that groups like m. T. A. And other cities, their m. T. A. S evaluate their vision zero engineering strategy. Part of that use of cameras and signs and some of what you were referring or mentioning, use of lights and signs. I dont recall this is in seattle or oregon, there was a study they did. They had a specific area that was known for speeding. They increased the deployment of three signs to alert people to the speed limit, cautioning them to slow down in that area r they did this study over a specific period, they found slight reduction in speeding. They attributed that to the point of additional signage, educate motorist. Short answer to your question, were looking at strategies being used in other places. The Law Enforcement piece of it is education and enforcement. Enforcement thats focused and datadriven. Commissioner cohen thank you. Appreciate that. Vice president taylor i dont see any other questions from my fellow commissioners. Unless theres more, well call the next item. Public comment. At this time, the public is now welcome to make Public Comment on line item 3 regarding the safe streets for all. Please call 4156550001. Press pound and pound again. Please press star 3 if you like to make Public Comment on line item 3. We have one comment. You have two minute. I called earlier from district 7. Im calling i appreciate all the questions and his clear interest playing a good role in this effort. Policing has no role in reducing fatalities on our streets. What works has nothing to do with Traffic Enforcement theres nothing bias that comes from it. I strongly encourage you to look very strongly at this department and reorganize it to more useful endeavors. Its not working. Its okay, its not your fault. This is not the thing that will change the fatalities in the street. Its okay to admit that and move on. Thank you. Vice president taylor next funnel. Presentation of the sfpd on general orders on policy roam, 3rd quarter between 20 discussion. Vice president taylor who is presenting . I am for sfpd. Im happy to defer to the staff. Good evening, commissioners and members of the public. Thank you for opportunity to d. P. A. To share the policy work we did in the 3rd quarter of 2020. I do want to point out that the bulk of this work was done by there have been progress made on the work that has been carried on by myself and sharon woo and other members of the d. P. A. Policy team. I want to make sure that i gave credit where credit is due. With that, Sergeant Youngblood, you can advance to the next slide please. Just highlights of our 3rd quarter policy work, we made recommendations to enhance officerinvolved shooting protocol. We worked toward the adoption of sfpd procedures with deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Which was adopted by this commission in july 2020. In august of 2020, we published our 2019 annual Language Access report which addresses d. P. A. Language access complaints and key d. P. A. Language access projects and goals. We also collaborated with sfpd on the expanded use of force reporting and appropriate control technique in light of George Floyds death. We also recommended we made recommends with regard to revisions of the department of general order. As the commission is aware, there is a quick schedule of turnaround that the department trying to obtain in terms of revising many of the departments general orders. In the 3rd quarter, we made new recommendations for several d. G. O. S. I want to talk about the process that happened. We were approached by the department with the list which was relatively ambitious of d. G. O. They wanted to provide. With input from the department was to separate the recommendations into tiers. There was one tier of d. G. O. S where d. P. A. Agreed we were not going to make any recommendation. There were two other tier. One tier in which d. P. A. Would make recommendation without getting draft from sfpd subject Matter Expert. Another tier where would wait for the draft from the subject Matter Expert before we make recommendations. That tier dealt with recommendations where the d. G. O. Was old that we didnt know how it was implemented. Once we broke those into tiers, then the work started and there are several d. G. O. S that were working on. It was elias or hamasaki who requested that the department track where we are. Were at a point were in terms of tracking to indicate our stride. Theres lot of progress thats happening this these various tiers of d. G. O. S that were working on. In 3rd quarter we made new recommendations with regard to d. G. O. S 3. 05. The department weapon return panel. Alcohol and drug use by members and investigations. [please stand by]. So then theres a productive back and forth that happens during these meetings with ongoing recommendations or outstanding recommendations. And for the most part, we are able to resolve a lot of them. And speaking specifically with the hostage and barricaded suspects d. G. O. As an example, there were six recommendations, and at the end of the day, four that we ultimately agreed upon and two that we didnt agree upon, but we were persuaded by the department after having that discussion. Sergeant youngblood, if you could advance to the next slide. So this is the d. G. O. Of what i talked about what the sparks report is, and this was the d. G. O. , i believe, talked about prior to the thanksgiving holiday. In the column to the left most of the slide, its the recommendation that was made, and then, theres a date that the recommendation was received by the department. Then, theres sfpds response, sf sf sfpds recommendation and explanation. So in the sparks report, that explanation might be there, and then, it might be edited to show what our discussion is about, and so this is just a snapshot of what the process looks like. And as i mentioned earlier in this presentation, i do think that we hit our stride in terms of being able to moving things along and really having meaningful conversations between the two agencies about our policy recommendations and our d. G. O. Revision recommendations. Next slide, please. That is it, and belieobviously happy to answer any questions that you have. [inaudible] Vice President taylor maybe, well have sfpd go next, and then we can address any questions we have. Executive director, are you ready . Yes. Sergeant youngblood, if you can pull up my presentation. There are a few edits that i made this evening, and ill send it over to Sergeant Youngblood this evening, and all of the edits are in this presentation. There were a number of edits made related to that meeting. Good evening, commissioners, Vice President taylor, chief scott, members of the commission, and executive director henderson, im kathrin mcguire. Im the executive director of the Strategic Management bureau in the department. The things i will be presenting are the Third Quarter 2020 sparks report, which includes the dates of july through october im sorry, july through september of 2020. So as a reminder, this really only covers that time period. Weve made other progress since then, but in that quarter, we issued 23 Department Bulletins and notices, and with one of those being a bulletin, and 22 of those being notices. We issued two general orders, as you all well know. The bias free policing policy and the interactions with deaf and hard of hearing individuals, and we issued one department manual, which was the Community Ambassador program manual, which you also saw at the time. As i go through these, i wont read through all of these slides. It is he a its a lot of words, but in the interest of the public watching, we provide a brief description of what they do, and then, ill talk through the items that have moved beyond the under revision portion of our process. As you know, d. G. O. 1. 08, which was Community Policing, was appropriated for meetandconfer, so i expect that will be back in front of you fairly soon. Department general order 2. 07, which is the discipline process for sworn officers im sorry, that is also under revision as our peace officer rights and drug and alcohol use by members. The d. G. O. On personal use of social media is with a working group, so that is in an initial stage of revision, and as you know, the d. G. O. 3. 09 is tabled for future Police Commission for a future Police Commission meeting, and d. G. O. 3. 10, serious incident review board, ive corrected this item to reflect that this is in the early stages of revision, as well. The 5. 03 investigative detentions has been a topic tonight, and so its up for further consideration with this body. 5. 04, arrests by private persons, this was a change from the last presentation that was submitted because you all approved and adopted that item on at that meeting on the 18th. And then, working on a few more a few more general orders that are under in progress, rather, rights of onlookers, nonuniform officers obtaining search warrants, Domestic Violence, which you will see in the coming weeks, and psychological evaluation of adults. We are we also, as you know, adopted victims of Violent Crime notification, and that was adopted in quarter four on november 4 Commission Meeting. And then, we have working groups in progress for policies and procedures for juveniles of sorry. Policies and procedures for juveniles in detention, arrest, and custody, and then children of arrested parents, as well. For media relations, we will be beginning a working group soon. Im working with matt dorsey on that particular d. G. O. , and then, we will also be beginning a working group for guidelines for First Amendment activities in the new year. And then, in this last slide of sort of general orders that are in progress, the d. G. O. 11. 11, making some final revisions, and that will be in front of the commission soon, as well. So then, to give you a flavor of the kinds of recommendations that we have incorporated into our our revisions of either manuals or d. G. O. S, ive excuse me, ive outlined some of those here. And so these are the these represent the d. G. O. S or manuals that were passed or issued to the department during quarter three, and so then, im rehashing what kind of what d. P. A. Recommended for those particular policies. So d. P. A. Was an integral part of the biofree policing policies and individuals in the form of a working group. And then, for the policy manual, the recommendations that were implemented or partially implemented related to d. P. A. Recommending that the Community Ambassador manual require that the incident report writer include the incident report in the incident report the name, contact information, and that the individual was acting in the role of Community Ambassador in the written or oral statement. So we included that in the manual. We also included a recommendation that the Program Coordinators duties upon being notified that a Community Ambassador engaged in misconduct was involved in a Major Incident or used force or took took enforcement action. So i believe we adjusted that to reflect that Community Ambassadors would not be taking enforcement action, and then finally i think theres a couple more here d. P. A. Requested that the d. P. A. Include complaints, so reflecting d. P. A. As the recipient of complaints from the community and how those would be held by handled by Community Ambassadors for Community Ambassadors, rather. And then, d. P. A. Also recommended that courses were required for maintaining ambassador skills, including for things like cmcr and 4th amendment training, that those things would be specified in the manual, as well. And then, that the notification to the Community Ambassador Program Coordinator regarding any uses of force action, we tabled this just because the language thats been added throughout the order are not sworn employees and are not authorized to use force, which makes the recommendation i dont like using the term moot here, but it makes the recommendation unnecessary to include that language because they wont be conducting those activities. So that concludes my presentation this evening, and im happy to take any questions. Vice president taylor yes, commissioner elias. Commissioner elias thank you. Thank you, director mcguire. When did you make the changes to your presentation that you just had on the screen . This evening, as i was prepping for the meeting. Commissioner elias well, i appreciate that because i have the november 18 version, which was posted two weeks ago to the public. Right. Commissioner elias and again posted, again, this friday to the public, which has a lot of errors in it. And while we appreciate you making those corrections on the eve of your presentation, that false information is out there in the public and posted on our website with those, and some of those items were things that commissioner taylor and i asked you to correct this before your presentation before the commissioner review board. Next time you present, if you could make your changes before you present to the board. I was having a difficult timekeeping time keeping up, and im sure the public is, as well. Its important that we have accurate informationtor t for public, so if you could follow all of those recommendations, thank you. Vice president taylor thank you. Commissioner hamasaki . Commissioner hamasaki thank you. We were provided this report before, and it may not even be related, but is the Strategic Plan that the department is supposed to be rolling out part of this policy work or is that on a separate track or is that not your wheel house . Im sorry . No. My team helps facilitate the Strategic Planning process, and strategy 1. 0 was really from professional standards, as well. So which Strategic Planning process or to which Strategic Planning process youre referring, im not entirely clear. There is a bias Strategic Plan, there is a a Community Policing Strategic Plan. Strategy 1. 0 sits above all of those, but theres a recruitment and retention Strategic Plan, as well. So are you asking about one of those specifically or just generally . Commissioner hamasaki and thanks for the clarification. The Strategic Plan 1. 0 is sort of the overarching Strategic Plan, and then, theres basically subplans for various working groups or topic areas. And so the Strategic Plan why is it 1. 0 . Is there different iterations of it to follow or yeah, 1. 0, we refer to it as 1. 0 because its the framework, and it sets the vision, and i see the chief coming on here to talk a little bit here. And those other plans, really, are supposed to flush out 1. 0. And then, so chief, if you want to ill defer to you. Yeah, catherine, and i think commissioner hamasaki answered it, as well or understood your answer, but i thought i would add to it. There are recommended multiple Strategic Plans that will fold into the framework of 1. 0. Its hiring and retention Strategic Plan, Community Policing. Theres a number of them, so they all would fall into that framework that would fit into 1. 0 and the collaborative initiatives i mean, those five initiatives, strategic initiatives. So to answer your question, we have to do it kind of in pieces because theres so many of them, and theyre in different work groups, and theyll fold into the framework. Commissioner hamasaki okay. Is there a way that we can get and i dont know what format this would be in that we can get the overarching plans and the subplans . It doesnt have to be particularly detailed or anything, but just to know where they are in the process . Sure, yes, we can provide that, and thats something that theres an ongoing the best way to articulate and get it to the commission and the public is theres ongoing discussion for us. It is in process, and many of them are in process. Many of them have already been created, and some of them are in process. Commissioner hamasaki okay. Well follow up on that and have a presentation at some other point. Yes, sir. Vice president taylor thank you. I dont see any other questions, so chief and executive director mcguire, chief of staff hawkins, unless you havetion some, we c somethn move to the next item. Okay. No one is saying anything else, so Sergeant Youngblood. Clerk okay. Public comment on item 4. Members of the public who wish to make comment comment, dial 4156550001. Enter meeting i. D. 1463480406 press pound and pound again, then star, three to enter Public Comment online item 4. It looks like we have no Public Comment, commissioner. Vice president taylor okay. Next item. Clerk item 5, discussion and possible objection to Issue Department bulletin 20163, grooming standards, modifying department general order 10. 012, equipment. Discussion and possible action. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioners, executive director henderson, chief scott, and members of the public. Im bob mosier, chief of staff, and im here to present Department Bulletin 20163. Department bulletin 20163 is being submitted modifying department general order 10. 02. That seeks to amend the guidelines establishing the wearing of jewelry or ordnance. The section we wish to correct is within the current language of 10. 02 speaks to what officers are allowed to wear, and it specifically speaks and references gender in terms of the earrings and other jewelry or ornaments that officers are allowed to wear. This policy will amend the current language eliminating reference to gender and female officers specific, replacing the language with members. The public of the Department Bulletin is to align with current city policy relating to gender inclusion, as well as mayoral executive order 18. 03. The pertinent sections of this Department Bulletin are found in the bulleted sections that you can see on the screen. I will not read the language thats in those sections, but basically, what they refer to are the types of items that officers may wear, wristwatch, rings, hair clips, earrings. It delineates specifically what type of earring an officer may wear on duty, and then finally, it also prohibits the wearing of other facial jewelry, for example, nose, lip, eyebrow, ear gauges, or double hole piercings while in uniform. With that, i will open it up to any questions you might have regarding the Department Bulletin. Vice president taylor i dont see anything in the chat, and so unless a commissioner has a question, i think its appropriate to have a motion. Is there a motion . So moved. Vice president taylor sergeant. Open it up to Public Comment. Clerk for members of the public that would like to make Public Comment regarding line item 5 on Department Bulletin 20163 on grooming standards, please dial 4156550001 and enter access code 1463480406. Press pound, and pound again. For members already on, please press star, three to raise your hand. And we have no Public Comment, commissioner. Vice president taylor commissioner cohen, did you have a question . Commissioner cohen yes, i do. Thank you. Im curious, mosier, were members were officers consulted with this policy or members of the p. O. A. Consulted on the creation of this policy . Is. So this policy is going to be part of a larger revision to department general order 11. 08, which will accompany or which will actually fold in the wearing of earrings and jewelry, and during the creation of that general order, there was extensive conversations and consultation with members of the department as well as members of the p. O. A. That Current Department general order is going through the process, and i believe is currently with d. P. A. For review and should be submitted to you, the commission, soon. Commissioner cohen thank you. Vice president taylor okay. Sergeant, do you want to call roll for the vote . Clerk yes. So on the montion to adopt the Department Bulletin 20163 [roll call] clerk you have six yeses. Vice president taylor okay. The motion passes. Next item. Clerk line item 6, general Public Comment. At this time, the public is welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on the agenda but are under the jurisdiction of the Police Commission. Under rules of the commission, Neither Police nor members of the d. P. A. Nor the commission may respond to comments made during Public Comment. Public comment may be made by calling 4156550001 and entering meeting i. D. 1463480406. Press pound, and pound again. For those already logged on that would like to make general Public Comment, please press star, three now. So far, no Public Comment. Vice president taylor okay. Next line item. Clerk next line item, line item 7. Public comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 below, closed session, including Public Comment on item 8, vote whether to hold item 9 in closed session. Members of the public who would like to make Public Comment online item 7, please press star, three now. And theres no Public Comment, commissioner. Vice president taylor all right. Next item. Clerk line item 8, vote on whether to hold item 9 in closed session, San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10, action. Vice president taylor is there a motion . Commissioner hamasaki so moved. Commissioner elias second. Vice president taylor okay. Clerk all right. On the motion to hold item 9 in closed session [roll call] clerk you have six yeses. I will take us into closed session. Vice president taylor great. Clerk commissioners, we are back in open session. Line item 10, vote to elect whether to disclose any and all discussion on item 9 held in closed session, San Francisco administrative code section 57. 12 a, action. Vice president taylor can i have a motion . Commissioner elias motion. Commissioner dejesus second. Clerk all right. On the motion [roll call] Vice President taylor do we need to make Public Comment on this, Sergeant Youngblood . Clerk yes, we do. Members of the public who would like to make Public Comment, please press star, three if youd like to make Public Comment, and we have no Public Comment. All right. [roll call] clerk you have six yeses. Vice president taylor all right. The motion passes, and please call the final item. Clerk line item 11, adjournment. Action item. Vice president taylor do i have a motion . So moved. Commissioner hamasaki second. Clerk on the motion to adjourn [roll call] clerk motion passes with six yeses. Vice president taylor all right. That does it for tonight. Commissioner hamasaki everyone have a great night. See you next time