Happening and nothing is being done well, in fact, synagogue o something is being done and the new outlets are reported but not highlighting the significant way like what we see happen in those crimes when they occur weve seen in recent months, is a change a change in deployment and change in addition resources weve received and the altitude around what really do in San Francisco and suddenly aggressive changes in the Police Policies in the policy commission has made has it difficult but not stooping us sunnybrook e doing everything we can to hold people accountable with crimes in San Francisco a Police Department is working hard to deal with crime not only in the downtown area but all neighborhoods and the chief will talk about that in a moment but we also have a City Attorney that is willing to prosecutor in a long time prosecutor people for drugs and deals on the streets that are killing citizens of this city i want to give you an oath of the things youll hear specifically we plan to talk about some of the more recent organized retail theft we have received a stated grant for 517 has allowed us to step up our effort to support additional officials to deal with those issues but additional prosecutors in the City Attorneys office and hold people accountable. And snatch and grapz grabs have led to incredible arrests we are seeing increasing car breaks, no. And the number of dealers and users being arrested on the street to be held accountable the support from the following have been valuable in the work the vehicle theft armed suspect and commercial burgers and killing of store clerk in the Richmond District all the things have outdoor in every single incident in the large cases arrests are being made and doing everything we can to have a full author investigation and photocopy on the cases to have a rock solid case for trails what have you and ultimately seen a number of recent events have gotten more attention just yesterday the issue that happened downtown in the Union Square Area and the fast and complete work that the police led to getting the suspect we appreciate theyre other issues that are curbing i want to chief to get into details to talk about where officers with doing the investigations and following up and making big rear yard variance arrests to make sure that people are held acknowledge lets talk about just the other side of that. This city has been a big supporter of crime figures of reform to our Police Department we have not abandoned the things we care about well continue to doing everything we can to provide treatment and to work with people because ultimately the we have to make ass arrests we want to make sure that people continue to dont feel that is okay to continue time and time again committing the crimes in San Francisco but provide the layer of balance and support but make sure that albeit is part of this as well. So this is what were here to talk about and the chief about talk about the specifics in the cases augural levels from the highly issues has won the lowest crime rates in the big cities and we are working hard to make sure we are protecting and serving the public to people feel safe we are proud of amazing work we or doing and step up our efforts on all levels aggressively we are seeing crimes and car break no ones and burgers and ambassadors and other things at the end of the day, we know we will not let that and we will send a strong message for people coming to San Francisco or here in San Francisco committing those crimes and disrupting our lives and making san franciscans feel unsafe well not allow it to continue and now were finally able to implement this in a whole another way to incredible results a number of or so and prosecution have occurred with the district Attorneys Office and we will continue to do this work every single day in the middle of night to broad daytime to get to a place san franciscans and tourist and others that walk down the center in San Francisco feel safe i want to introduce our police chief bill scott to talk about the crimes and arrests where they have been made. Thank you, london breed and thank you. Im bill scott police chief in the San FranciscoPolice Departments i want to start by first of all, emphasizing with mayor breed said this is about concoct and sending a strong and clear message people will be held accountable in those types of crime in our city whether that is a Single Person or a group of people will be held accountable doing everything we can to bring every resources because the issue is not about the city of San Francisco but people committing crime just to be clear, when people come here er live here do bad things this Police Department and this city and mayor are dedicated to making sure that we hold people accountable i want to talk about a couple of incidents id like to talk about starting off. We had yesterday in the york store 650 in the morning ambassadors listed and the suspects stole and drove a car into the store and tried to get away with thousands of thousands dollars of merchandise thanks to the Police Department we are able to arrest the suspect and recover over one hundred and fifty thousands of manufacturers we know for a fact that one store was not the only one they were tending to sheriffs deputy lift to thats what it takes thats what well do we have been running lift organizations and the fraternity grant from of the st. Patrick we have resources to meet the challenges and those resulted in great news arrests around the state talking about retailers and communities around San Francisco. And heres one example. Walgreens 8 people ran in the ski masks with a wagon and grabbed everything they could and the officers were there and with respectable arrest and 6 and the other two you better be looking over our shoulders. Thats was it takes in order to turn this around. Fencing operations the retail theft is not just people stealing but selling this and we know that visitors and people that make a living off of profiting from stolen manufacturers in and around San Francisco and the bay the emergency investigations within this past week operating on Mission Street we know the challenges we have on Mission Street with selling stolen manufacturers with the one street marking with no license and stealing manufacturers more than anything else to sell our versed recovery on the 17 thousands of stolen prompt property from city of victorville secret had the tags on them. And message is this you will be held accountable. Car breakins has been a pervasive issue in the city and authority it has been declining over the last number of years paralleling the last 4 years we know it is an issue. We have been running big operations we announce that a month ago and weve seen more decrease with car breakins and arrested numerous individuals because of officers are out there. And when those thieves try to break in we are there those operations have led to long term investigations and able to recover stolen property and the arresting of many more suspects that is an overwhelming strategy well continue to use for the people coming into our city or living in the city that are breaking into cars the next one you break in rule be caught. Here that clearly we have to put an end to this. People that get their scars broken into authority that sounds like a low level crime we have people spending theyre hard earned money and people in the live have their laptops and other tablets and things people break into their cars and steel their property it turns their lives up and down will be accountability and continue to do exactly that. Now those things will not taller than the overnight but those efforts will stop the theft in the city that is the theft of john hands in the richmond monday district and mr. Wallie is showing up for work and like we all do. And the didnt come home that evening this because someone walked in the store brazenly thinking they can just take the property without paying for that and confronted by the gentleman and our homicide versed did a very, very thorough job and arrested the individual. Who was not from San Francisco. And owe will be held accountable and prosecuted heres the message theft is not a small thing especially with when the brazen suspects carrying out. We have to take it seriously and we are talking to seriously and hold you to get and mr. Wallie and his family we are deeply, deeply sorry for your loss but well have closures for the person counted and will be held accountable an overall this year again decline in brings and reduction in oes crimes but not testing but making sure that people know their held accountable and people that come to the city and live in the city and work in the city will be protected and making all understand that San Francisco is not the place to come if you want to criminal those crimes we will come after. And youll be came out. And lastly, i like to close by saying that Police Department is understaffed at that time 2009 going to defer us, we will creativity and the ledge of the properties with our federal fbi and oats together we will get it done and no better example than what were doing in the market. We have arrested over 11 hundred people in may. And the majority of those have been drug sellers drug dealers we know the problem we know this has greatly laterally contributed to overdose issues and there is a strong, strong unindividually commitment to turn that around. With the drug market and Agency Center we set that up and this may we have had a steady flow of resources including the San FranciscoPolice Department and including the Highway Patrol and is Drug Administration and others. That will not stop. Our too and these attorney are project manager those cases on a state and federal level and we expect to make sure those people are counted and the cause of theft and destruction in the city we will denmark doing everything we can to holds people abdominal accountable that are selling drugs the message everyone i hope that is loud and clear this city is a great city our city and doing everything we can to protect it. So with that, open up to unintelligible . Thank you, chief scott i want to add a few things yesterday we talked about a plan to pay our officers who are part of our reserve to increase the number of foot people on the street to help us address this problem the difference between the reserves and the ambassadors we have Police Officers the reserves will wear their uniform and armed and able to make arrests like Police Officers im how much this program will be a much need and in addition to diegos to get bodes open the street to hold people accountable and see some increases in the number of applications that were getting from the Police Department and large Academy Classes were grateful for that but at the same time chief scott mentioned that the were seeing challenges with the numbers, you know. We have become creating creative in working around the limitation and challenges including the staffing issues with additional ours from the state and the feds have been incidentally valuable and the momentum is on our side im christ jesus practice is happening and continue to happen well not let up this is the most for thing three we are dealing with in San Francisco. And we want to make sure whoever you are people who live and work here and people visit here need to feel safe doing everything we can to insure that is is case. I also like to take this opportunity to just recognize that the conflict in the israel and cda as led to great news protests and other challenges that exist in the city we have seen peaceful protests in doesnt he our millions of dollars is helped to allow the public to cherries their freeman and do so safely your proolts have been stepped up in the institutions around San Francisco and for peaceful protests no heightened issues or things that are of concern but remain vigilant and making sure that people have safe in San Francisco as they exercise their freeman freedom of speech so workplace thank you for being here. And open up for a few questions. Can you talk about more about the grants unintelligible . The 17. That is one just to be clear, one component of the Additional Resources and in addition to the support from the california housed patrol and the National Guard from the state but the 17 is only direct to pay for overtime for Police Officers for revisions and for the additional. 17. Scheduling of meetings, other events. In the district Attorneys Office to help prosecutor those individuals once the arrests are made. The foot patrols are completely different not funded by the state will be from San Francisco our current budget with the Police Department and the goal so make adjustment and right now the reserve officers will be hired and come into the reserve have thirty of them and active and out in the community and helping with Public Safety we hope by offering payment for the services will see that number increase and have more of our reserve officers on the streets walking the beat have to go through a process from the board of supervisors to allow this to occur i hope with the members of the board can ask us for the foot patrols and other support from the department of will support this wheeler wholeheartedly. What happened at the chinese unintelligible can you tell us. Ill let the chief talk about that. And um, there is for those the question was about the chinese as of monday individual drove their car into the Chinese Consulate Office from that our officers responded quickly and we will be having a town hall meeting about this incident and at that point no future information at the town hall we plan to next thursday a week from now any Additional Information on the investigation we can share well share at that time but our process is about transparent and weve been doing 20u8 for i think we have one of the best models for the information i dont think anyone else does that like us but well be putting out information without drawing construction and letting the public know about the investigations where they stand next thursday coming thursday and ill put information out at that time but no future information at this point. Consul case yesterday unintelligible the house so the police searched his house going to search and how theyre searching will play a really for the investigations. Yes. Searches are part of investigation and yeah. I dont know you know what the reporter did but i will say that searches and search warrants are part of this. The reporter searching the results as your investigation um i dont know had the reporter i can imagine the scenario that the reporters is searching. We will follow the law and the constitution. Going into anyone else house for a search in an investigation well have a search warrant and when it is appropriate well talk about that when it is appropriate. Achieve a Early Morning warning people are Walking Around looking in cars, riding bilks and motor scooters and attempt to before he can wreak in Cars California you do in our community. Thats a great question. And an important question first of all, ill say we do realize that and have officers out youll never know our officers and that is how we made a number of our arrests and horrific car bureaus for the public if you see something suspicious call it in good put yourselves in harms way be careful but please do that. So it helps when we have vehicle description of a suspect a license plate this helps us do we we need to do call it in and report it. If you have photos or videos we need it too unfortunately, were in a time where oftentimes people like to put things online before they give it to the Police Department and somehow we have to change that. Weve seen crimes before we get a call that is online we were reacting to public outrage i ask the people of the community put 2 own online if you want to but please give it to us. Social media will not solve a crime the Police Department will we need the information and right thing to do to give the information to us thats my ask. The culture unintelligible security given the conflict for violence were aware of that unintelligible are other schools unintelligible . Yes. We are doing psa calls around the city. This Police Department is committed to protecting and serving eric so those goals as the mayor pointed out the conflict sparked a lot of interest and prophets and our job to make sure that all of that is done peacefully within the law and make sure that people see were out theyre doing these proolts so the short answer is yes. Talk about the numbers that showed up over what period unintelligible two months. Bureaus have been up and down a negative all the year but in terms of car break no ones we started those strategies with 10 percent overall larceny and car breakins have down. Probably over 11 thousand less victims than last year. Let me add ive within encouraging people to report the crimes not everybody reporting crimes you heard me say that before it hopes you report when our victimized i know where to focus our effort and have a chance to get the property back and helps please record our serial numbers own the phone have tracking energy to to track because we do recover property and oftentimes, you know. The fencing operation that i mentioned 70 thousand dollars a lot of that is retail tagged we can get the property back to the rightful owner. Sometimes we recover laptops and phones and have recovered property but not the owners because the serial numbers are not own there. Any time you report a crime the seriously number will assist us to if you recover your property we can get it back to you i have to do our jobs but the public can help report the serial numbers so if we recover if we can get it back to you. When did that happen. Two days ago. So this is just a name we have coined to describe those operations that means were going to bring the resources to the problem and not football but the quarterback is trying to tackle that and i mentioned this you several other active steps by the people that fit those crimes try to overwhelm is Security Guard and we have had that strategy if we very officers there we have enough officers to arrest people. Thats what that is. Will more people unintelligible . Yes. You, we know at least 4 arrested yesterday and have some good investigating leads and the message is this you might have gotten away with that but those two we didnt catch yesterday youll not get away with that forever well find you. I wanted to just add some appreciative because on the various illegal vending going on in San Francisco. A lot in the Mission District and many times in the plaza and other places in the city it is ladder thing but i think it is for that people especially public understand what were asking this is stolen why is the police not doing anything this is a couple of years ago a state law passed that made that impossible to endorse laws using the police force have to be do the right thing administratively it puts you in a situation to create now legislation but provide a different vehicle img people in the any discussion to actually go out and really make sure that people are permits and the aide provides for fee we need to insure that you are a vendors and understand where our standoff came from and have receipts and other things we also want to make sure were doing everything we can as a city to try and endorse our laws it is difficult for many any discussion staff and many of our Public Health investigators afternoon food and will not go out without Police Officers we have an obligation to protect our city workforce this is complicated and it is law that definitely needs to change but meantime have a number of the new policies were to try to implement in San Francisco to eliminate a place to do vending in San Francisco were working on that we know there is a lot of work to be done but complicated and frustrating because it is failed policy and it is not working in San Francisco and other major cities throughout the state and it creating this market that we know there are some vendor and legitimate vendors wanted to sell their item come in and get their permit to provide services for the city but basically a number of People Public school taking advantage because they you see those market having flooded in San Francisco parties weve not seen we are creative in working around that and figuring out ways we can make sure that we are investigating when those crimes occur that is leading to arrests. But theres definitely more work that needs to be done in particular. Whats the law. We can get you the information for look at that beautiful jellyfish. The way to speak to students and motivate them to take action, to save the planet, they do, they care and my job is to speak to them in a way that they can understand that touches their heart and makes them feel powerful with simple actions to take every day. I was born and raised in the desert of palm springs, california. My dad was the rabbi in the community there. What i got from watching my father on stage talking to the community was learning how to be in the public. And learning how to do public speaking and i remember the first time i got up to give my first school assembly, i felt my dad over my shoulder saying pause for drama, deliver your words. When i was a kid, i wanted to be a teacher. And then when i got into high school, i decided i wanted to get into advertising and do graphic art and taglines and stuff like that. By the time i was in college, i decided i wanted to be a decorator. But as i did more work, i realized working my way up meant a lot of physical labor. I only had so much energy to work with for the rest of my life and i could use that energy towards making a lot of money, helping someone else make a lot of money or doing something meaningful. I found the nonprofit working to save the rainforest was looking for volunteers. I went, volunteered and my life changed. Suddenly everything i was doing had meaning. Stuffing envelopes had meaning, faxing out requests had meaning. I eventually moved up to San Francisco to work out of the office here, given a lot of assembly through Los Angeles County and then came up here and doing assemblies to kids about rainforest. One of my jobs was to teach about recycle, teaching students to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost, im teaching them they have the power, and that motivates them. It was satisfying for me to work with for the department of environment to create a message that gets to the heart of the issue. The San Francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team, we go into the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. We realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. The city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. We have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether its lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and weve had great feedback. We have helped public and private schools in San Francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. Great job. Ive been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and im grateful for the work that i get to do, especially on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco. I try to use my voice as intentionally as possible to support, i think of my grandmother who had a positive attitude and looked at things positively. Try to do that as well in my work and with my words to be an uplifting force for myself and others. Think of entering the job force as a treasure hunt. You can only go to your next clue and more will be revealed. Follow your instincts, listen to your gut, follow your heart, do what makes you happy and pragmatic and see where it takes you and get to the next place. Trust if you want to do good in this world, that long it was in fashion, oshaughnessy water system has been sustainable. In addition to providing water for the bay area, it also generates clean hydroelectric power to run city buildings and services. And more recently, some San Francisco homes and businesses. Satellite electricity is Greenhouse Gas free, so we see a tremendous benefit from that. We really are proud of the fact that, weve put our water to work. Even with the system as well coon received as hetch hetchy, Climate Change has made the supply of water from the sierra vulnerable. And requires new thinking about where and how we use water. We have five hundred million gallons a day of wastewater being dumped out into San Francisco bay and the ocean from the bay area alone. And that water could be recycled and should be recycled for reuse through out the bay area. Were looking at taking wastewater and reading it to drink watering standards. Were also looking at our generation and looking at onsite water reuse looking at the technology and strategies we have available to us today. The very First Recycling plant in the state of california for landscape irrigation was built in San Francisco. Weve just developed a new recycled water plant in the ocean side wastewater facility for irrigation purposes in golden gate park, lincoln park and the panhandle. A century ago, San Francisco built a dam to create bunched znswer of fresh water to ensure the future and ensure the taps will flow for future generations, it will take as much vision when it reflects a fundamental change about how we think about water. I think we recognize theres going to be change in the future. So were going to have to have the flexibility and the creativity to deal with that future as its presented to us, its a matter of how to see it and say, okay, lets make wise use of everything we have. This oshaughnessy centennial moment is made possibbbbbbbbbbb as a voter you have a choice on how you can vote you might cast your vote by mail or vote earlier in city hall if you choose to vote earlier youll go to our powell plays might be a church or in regards garage theyll make the voting as uncomplicated as possible yes what does 3 take to be a poll working and what exactly does a poll work working do letting meet some. Aim jack. Im coauthor la. Im tiffany and charles and my name is elizabeth im jeff im bruce hi, im karin a fulltime student addressed city college ive been a pole working for 10 years. For 13 years your 10 or the 9 or 10 years. Those poll workers and thousands are an essential part of election day 31 they provide the safeguarding of democratic processed theres a feeling in the poll place youre a feeling of something that has a special place in the world the democratic process in the United States is model to the rest of the world. Its a relay sequence e sense youre part of that history and being able to keep that going and it is really does feel good. I feel overhead this is a great civil dude and get a different idea. In my residential area i dale feel im Transbay Joint Powers Authority to the community as a wloel in the community. So San Francisco poll workers have a Service Based mission the first to protect the voter rights we make sure they understand the rights on the ballot and the right to an essential polling place and many languages around english. Its like someone that didnt know how to read im more happy to help you like ill help you. The second part to serve the voters like workers and language they respect the voter and finally the last myths is offsets the which i see to come to the polling place. This takes a lot of pole working for each election they higher 26 hundred pole workers to staff over 5 hundred polling places this chose 6 senate victories and thousand clerks and high school students. Look at the address of our polling place on line or visit it a day beforehand. Every pole worker has been trained the Election Department holds for one hundred hundred clads a month before the election they vary into one and a half to 3 hours and classes focus on the right to voters including language and other access right for voter and step up polling place and equipment and procedures for voting and vote and mail. The Election Office is constantly streamlining the process so there the good of the training in order to tap into the continuing Better Process in their creating. Pole workers learner about clothing procures like completing the posted ballets and transferring the memory packs and others materials for the traffic officers or deputy sheriff. I like how the training every year improves. So as the inspector the first is all introduce user to the collect and assign them their job cards. A polling place nodes someone to supervisor and that pole working is called an inspector and responsible for that four or five clerks they get hands on experience. Youre also going to be doing other things at 12 oclock and 3 oclock to the inspector needs to hang into this. The inspector makes sure that the polling is smooth and greets people in a way with respect to make sure theyre going to the procedures so not only in the step of that but in the actual process during the day and the process of breaking the equipment down and tab latino making sure all the numbers gets to the sheriffs deputy and to the city and county. Theyre a key holder on election day they wear a i can rove that hat audience this is the voting machine. After the training inspections pickup bottles and other supplies their polling places need on election day. This is for the briefing. Inspectors are responsible for the chain of custody of ballot they sign for the battles and have you ever had your deposition taken transfer it to a deputy sheriffs at the end of the day. Thats one of the things i thought attracted to this to learner about the voting process and knowing that at the end of all this we take great pains to make sure that the routes are secure and save and delivered back to the ballet department. Their seals rewe having to put occupy the equipment and make sure that carry the key it secures the ballot machine so we have to be keen you know id say and areas open on dale what was going on election die when the voter voted if they messed up weve got to void that we have to keep track and get for every step as well as the procedural exponent to transfer the battles at the end of the nicest to the sheriffs detective and the memory card and data make sure those dont get tampa everyday with. Each inspectors manual excludes the cards that lifts different pole workers dudes. Theres one person that sets up the booth and others that set up equipment and again, we follow it step by step. We willfully with such culture diversities San Francisco has many languages spoken everyday to meet of diverse challenge the department of election assigned chinese pole workers spanish speakers to 2 hundred and 17 predicts and filipino to one hundred and thirty predictability and vietnamese and japanese to 7 priblts and theres a lot of chinese speaking people so theres been at least 2 people on staff that speak chinese and really comes in handy. They choose that pen. Id like to say that 70 percent of powell workers come back election after election thats inspiring theyre returning. Many people are glad to see us we know were in the predict we are there in the election before. I know people expect to see me now it is a regular occurrence so oh, youre working this one yeah. Theres a sense of trust they believe in us and theyll be protected. Working as a precinct worker learners about the process. Once you see the process you gain a new respect so ill encourage 80 anyone to get the experience. The department of elections needs new workers theyre looking for new powell its go to sf election. Org october 19, 2023. Could you please call the roll . Commissioner anderson, here. Commissioner hallisy, here. Commissioner jupiterjones, here. Commissioner louie, here. Commissioner mazzola, here. Commissioner wintroub, here. We acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples