Transcripts For SFGTV Police 20240704

Department and executive director Paul Henderson from the department of police accountability. Thank you. Welcome, everyone, to our march 6th, 2024 meeting. Happy womens History Month i am so excited for this month, we have a phenomenal first agenda item. Im so excited about it. Thats why i was outside. So i apologize for the ten minute tardiness. So with that, lets go ahead and call item number one please. Line item one weekly officer recognition certificate presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties. Recognition of sfpds homicide detail and support staff, including lieutenant kelvin sanders, sergeant domingo williams, officer anthony talarico, Sergeant Scott warnke, Sergeant John hallisey, retired officer Dominic Celaya, Sergeant Kira delaney, Sergeant Ryan jones, retired officer daniel cunningham, lisa maria varney, secretary Sergeant Brant dittmar, Sergeant Brant sullivan, retired officer daniel dedet. Sergeant francis feliciano. Sergeant brian burke, retired officer tom newland. Sergeant Gregory Scott and Sergeant Eric wang, and retired lieutenant michael philpott. Hello. Come on in. Thats like the size of my whole department. I think theres more outside. Yeah, theres more coming. Yes the more the merrier. Go ahead and crouch in because we want you in camera view. Come on, dont be shy. Lets get it together. Come. Do we have everyone . Lieutenant just a couple more. There we go. Okay okay. Thats everything. Okay. Thank you for having us. Were here to, present the officer appreciation awards to the entire homicide unit, theyve done a tremendous job this past year. 85 clearance rate, they work tireless hours around the clock. Theyre always on call, they never turn down a case. They take every single case thats presented to them, and theyve done an outstanding job over the last year. So we brought them all in to recognize them. So first off is, lieutenant kelvin sanders. Hes the oic of the unit. Then we have, sergeant domingo williams. We have officer anthony talarico. Did he make it there . Hi we have, Sergeant Scott warnick. We have Sergeant John hallisey. We have retired captain Dominic Celaya of the cold case unit. We have Sergeant Kira delaney, we have Sergeant Ryan jones. We have Sergeant Brett dittmar. We have Sergeant Brant sullivan, we have retired officer dan dedet of also of the cold case unit. We have Sergeant Francis feliciano. Did he make him . No, we have Sergeant Brian burke. We have retired officer tom newland, also of the cold case unit. We have Sergeant Gregory skow. We have Sergeant Eric wang, and we have, retired lieutenant mike philpott, also the cold case unit and, a special person we have here is, lisa marie vanny. Shes a secretary. Shes been there, i think longer than everybody. Yeah, she replaced lily. Could not talk to me without her whatsoever. Thanks, lisa. Thanks for everything. Thank you. And if i can just say its lisas birthday saturday. Oh, she wants us to know. See what we do for you. Yes. Thank you. 25. Wow. Thats right. And we have two new, Police Service aides here. They just started a couple of weeks ago. Come on. Part of this. Come on. We have anne dixon and eric heenan. Theyre new to the family. Great. Well, first of all, thank you all for coming. I really appreciate it, a couple things i want to say is thank you for your service. An 85 clearance rate is phenomenal. Its probably one of the best in several counties surrounding counties. I know were ahead of oakland, and san jose and some of the other counties. So that is really something to be proud of. Secondly, i want to thank your families because i know that without them, you probably wouldnt be here, while youre doing the your job and protecting the city and getting this clearance rate to where it is, theyre at home taking care of the home front. Your children and Everything Else that you arent there to be. Also i recognize that the one, two, three, 4 a. M. Calls that you have to get out of bed to go and answer these calls and really do your job. And so i want to thank you for your service, because i know that its not easy. And not only does it take a toll on you, but it takes a toll on the family unit as well. So i want to thank your family. Thank you for your service. And i want to thank you, lieutenant, for including the Cold Case Division as well, because i think that the that unit also goes unrecognized. And, as i indicated to you in the hall, you know, its like the Unsung Heroes you appear in the middle of the night or any hour of the day to go and respond to calls. And you see some of the most horrific, traumatic things that people see. And you are there and you do your job. So i want to thank you. I also want to thank you, madam secretary, because as we all know, you are probably the real machine of this operation. And, you know, im sure they just facilitate paperwork. I this is my second family. Yeah, i love all of them. Great. Ive been with them. Well, not all of them, but like 37 years. So i love it. Wow. Yeah. So you started when you were like five, like. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yes. And im so happy. Sergeant jones you know, when i first joined the commission, hes the one that raised me. So all my bad habits. You can thank him for. So with that, im going to turn it over to the chief. Thank you, president elias, i just also want to say thank you to this, to all of the homicide unit. I mean, the amount of dedication and commitment that it takes to just to work that unit is beyond what a lot of people would believe, but they do it. And many of them have been doing it for years, they dont complain. They just come in and do the work. And i know i wish we solved every case. We dont solve every case. But as you said, their clearance rates, for the last several years has been extremely high. And for the ones that dont get solved, they dont give up on these cases. And ive seen it time and time again. I also want to thank our retired members who came back to work these unsolved cases, because we definitely need their expertise and their support. And again, for the people who have cases who have not been solved, they dont give up. And its just a relentless unit and, you know, nothing but high praise for our homicide unit. So thank you all for what you do. And lisa and the new two psas. We know that, you know, we cant do our work without help and support. And youve been with the Department Almost 38 years and, its really great to congratulate you and thank you for your work as well. So thank you. And thank you to the commission for bringing everybody in and supporting the entire homicide unit. So thank you very much for that. Thank you, chief director henderson. Yeah, i just want to say so two things. The 85 clearance rate is youre not getting enough credit for that. That is huge. The National Average is i looked it up, 52. 3. I mean, the fact that this is what San Francisco is doing and where we are right now for our rate is really important. I just think its a very big deal. So i hope you guys are proud of the work that youre doing. But the secondary thing is i think its really important. I know so much of the work is behind the scenes, and youre not frequently featured on tv and at commissions for the work that you do, but just as a sign of how relevant the work is that you do, we talk about some of the cold cases and unsolved homicides literally every week, and Paulette Brown is here in the hearing room today. Shes here every week talking about not just her case, but the work that gets done that all of you do every single day. So i think its extra relevant that you guys are here for Police Commission to come and talk about the work thats actually being done and the work that still needs to be done. And so thank you all for continuing your work, and thank you for being here tonight. Its really appropriate and really relevant to the conversations that we have every single week. So thank you and continued success. Thank you. Director henderson. I think you bring up a great point because its not the cases that you solve, but its the ones that go unsolved and that probably haunt you. And i think eat away at you, that are very stressful. And you carry with you no matter where you go. I mean, even if you get transferred or move on to a different unit. I think those cases stick with you, and sort of are burned in your memory. And theyre the most difficult because theyre the ones you cant solve or cant prove. So commissioner benedicto, thank you very much. President elias, i want to echo what everyone has said, and thank you all so much, for all that you do and recognizing that exceedingly high, high clearance rate. I do also like president elias did want to take a moment to call out lisa and wish you an early happy birthday, and thank you for coming today. My own mother has spent her career as an assistant, and just as i know that the men that you work for would be would be adrift at sea without her. Im sure the same is true of this entire unit, so thank you for your work there. I also want to echo something that director henderson said, which is about the work that you do that is unseen in. Weve had a lot of weve had a number of high profile homicides that have been solved and that the units done tremendous work and gotten recognition for that. But i think its the homicides that dont make National News that dont get all the attention that you work just as hard as the ones that are, and that you dont see your work as trying to, to, to solve the ones that are high profile, that you treat all those cases, and work them relentlessly, like the chief said. And so i thank you for doing that. I do want to acknowledge, like director anderson did, that we have Paulette Brown in the room who has been a tireless advocate for calling attention to, her own son, aubrey, as well as the many unsolved homicides. And i know that thats something that you all care deeply about, too. So thank you for all you do and all you continue to do. Youre an exemplary part of this department and have our recognition and thanks. No one else on the dais. Thank you very much. Thank you. Come down for the photo. We have wine or champagne or you stay there. I just. You know, we got to get it for the gram, so get in. Get in together. Might need to come up. Up here, out. Im sorry. Commissioners. No, no. Youre fine, youre fine. Do you want us to move . No, i think youre good. You want to center . Thank you. Doctor president. While youre there, alex, that will never happened. Commission staffs in the photo two. They dont realize it. Just are. Yes. Thank you, thank you. All right. Thanks to. Members of the public who would like to make Public Comment regarding line item one. Please approach the podium. Good evening, president elias and commissioners, im jim salinas, a native san franciscan born and raised in the mission district. I lived in San Francisco my entire life. Commissioners, im here tonight to ask that you take on one more obligation, one more responsibility, and i fully appreciate the fact that you are all volunteer citizens and you dont get paid to do this. You do it because you love the city, and you know that theres some good that comes of it. So, commissioners, im here because. Excuse me, sir, i just paused your time for one second. This is going. This is not general Public Comment. Thats the next line item. This is just on the officer recognition. If you want to make comment on that, my apologies. I didnt hear you say that. Okay. No problem. Thank you. Go ahead. Since im here a lot and i see these commendations a lot, i just wanted to say thank you so much for doing this and giving these commendations. Its wonderful to see the excellent work recognized. So thank you. Thank commissioners. That is the end of Public Comment. If you would like to make Public Comment regarding line item one, yes, but its not line one, general Public Comment is next. Thank you. So sorry. No line item two general Public Comment at this time. The public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonights agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Police Commission under Police Commission. Rules of order. During Public Comment, Neither Police or epa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email the secretary at the Police Commission at sfpd. Commission at sf gov. Org or written statements may be sent via Us Postal Service to the Public Safety building located at 1245 third street, San Francisco, california. 94158. If youd like to make Public Comment, please approach the podium. Good evening again. I think every other week for me is enough for you because you need to release the pressure which is over everybodys head and its obviously a all right, to be. Are you okay, chief . I hope so, i mean, do not resign no matter what. Keep in mind, are you going to manage to pay for the situations . You know, you we pay for what we do. There is no escape. Its no way. But do not resign. Just wait to be fired. Its different because then you make the person who fires you pay a little more. Its difficult for when you have responsibility as a, for example, as a in the police, because you pay for your your functions and you pay individually for your own self. You see. So its tough, its tougher, which dont waste too long before finding out a way. Are you going to pay for what happened and what its still going on anyway . Specific the reason why you should go push sort of against autonomous cars. Im talking about that. Its because its, basically its in the hands of a sort of unintelligence, an unintelligent is dangerous no matter what. At some point, something they cant do, you can do because at some point there is okay, remember that one. Just try to fight against this autonomous cars. I dont think its going in the right direction. 25 seconds, where should i say, ill be back. Try to help, basically, my mission is that its for happiness for everybody. I remind you that i want nothing, just that happiness for everybody. But we have to Pay Attention before i go, nothing can stop me. You cant stop me without basically committing suicide. Im serious. But lets be honest. Thank you for being here. Weve missed you these past couple weeks. Does he look tired . I think we are. Hi, everyone. My name is daisy aussem, and i wanted to just report on something thats going on in the community, which is the use of several technologies that are being run by different space satellites and floating points coming from outer planets. So theres a specific technology where you can upload somebody and you can put sound into their ear. They call it synthetic telepathy, and its a technology that deloitte and all the big consulting firms have talked about and helped to build out and its been causing a lot of chaos because theyre uploading people and then theres racial chanting, or theyre trying to get information because theres an element of neuro monitoring to this technology. Ive worked a lot in behavioral health. I used to work at dcyf. Ive done a lot of advocacy and work with the police, and i feel like this is like one of the biggest issues in our community. I know you see that the crime spree thats been going on, as a part of this suite of technologies, its chemical servers that can go ahead and override the electricity, aka mantissa that youre coding in your computer and bring in outside databases that you can go ahead and use to edit like anything, any part of a database that you want to edit. And this is where were getting a lot of the data breaches. Ive been doing a lot of coding tutorials on my page. I have a small Developer Community where were basically trying to close this hacking down. Thats been causing a lot of problems because essentially they created an entire copy of all of the banks cash app, everything, everyones bank account and people that are working in city and county, state, San Francisco, city and county of San Francisco, working in the assembly, working in the senate, are using this technology to move peoples money around. And we figured it out. And now everything that weve been putting on our youtube has come up in the news. So we can clearly say that weve been having a major effect. I know youve been hearing about the outages. A lot of that is in our small Developer Community, and im going to release a specific tool to the community where theyre going to be able to get access to everyones public information. If the police do not take the situation seriously and start handling business. And thats a very powerful weapon to put into the hands of black and brown people that were oppressed. A specific Computer Program that allows you to legally overpower environments and access any type of data that you want. And i just want to talk to some people here on the Police Commission about that. And i have a handout. If someone could pass it around. Good afternoon, Police Commission. My name is chris ward klein. Thank you for the opportunity to speak in front of you today. I wanted to talk about technology. Today. I just passed out some Police Systems used by sfpd and one used by hrsa called sherlock. These systems are supposed to be automatic, sending appropriate signals to people, machines, computers and collect data. That is like an ongoing circle. December 30th, 2023. For Police Officers hurt in crash. Same day three firefighters hurt in crash december 23rd, 2023 suspect and four bystanders hurt and a police chase crash. What caused these and others . It is called a man in the middle attack and one or more agency placing too many people on their systems. Digital surveillance someone not important who plays sizable portions of the city and county on hsa. Sherlock. What is important that the Police Commission and Police Department need to ensure that all of these people are taking off immediately. Hsa does investigations for things like adoption, substance abuse, Mental Health disorders, illegal gun ownership, and sometimes they place people on it simply because they dont like them. I do believe the police should have access to tools and technology to assist them in investigations. However, until we can effectively mitigate and set the boundaries between departments and outside interference, we need to reduce the number of people on digital surveillance and insist only assigning credentials to people who need access, prosecute illegal usage, relieve delhi, review delhi to ensure no Access Control issues or man in the middle attacks 813 overdoses in 20 2366 more in january and february. Numbers due out any day. If you place every Single Person on digital surveillance, you will have a substantial increase in overdoses that can lead to poor morale in the Police Department and officer burnout. I respectfully ask the Police Commission to make this a priority. Im available to assist in any capacity requested by the Police Commission or the Police Department. Thank you. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. I was kind of mean to you last time i was here. I was a little too dramatic. I apologize for that. I just want to say that the fbi has a wonderful plan that will greatly, tremendously help police conduct. First, all all officers that are presently on the force will be given a very intensive, thorough, psychological and psychiatric evaluation to see whos a, whos a crackpot. And they will go. And the second thing is that all of you, all cops will be given a, their own, therapist that they can a nurse practitioner, they can call every day to say, you know, i had a horrible altercation when my buddy i had i had to beat somebody up today. It was a horrible. I need help, i need some counseling, some help. There will be Group Therapy for cops to get around with their buddies and say, yeah, yeah, this happened to me. There will be therapy, yoga classes, everything to keep you guys cool so that basically we dont need the commission anymore. That does not mean that you guys are fired. You guys are wonderful. The fact is, is that youre going to have better jobs. And thats im going to have to give you that later. And we dont have time right now. But i also want to say that shes got whos running the task force that theyre forming for the in order to ensure that no cop will be ever reprimanded for snapping for simply doing his job and, you know, sorry he does that thing right. You know, its on youtube, right . And so simply, hes going to run this task force, which will give each one each Police Officer a his own boss, who will literally review every, every second of the footage of his body cam of that day. He will they will interview his his buddies to see what did he do today. And it will be documented. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. And he will be praised for what he does. So we must nurture and the congress is going to have to pay for this, because if they dont, theyre not theyre not promoting the general welfare, which is very, very terrible. This is a crime against the constitution in the preamble. So, so congress and we can arrest congress simply when theyre on the. Yeah. Thank you. So i have to go home because i just did dialysis. I have to go to bed. I love you guys. And i was really mean to you, and i apologize. I, i get kind of crazy sometimes. Thank you. Okay but weve got better jobs for you than what youve got sitting up there and doing nothing. Youre going to do. You got a lot. Thank you. Maam, i appreciate it. Im ready. Thank you for your time. Thank you sir. Went over. Well, it sounds like you guys have a Better Future ahead of you, im here tonight. Hello. I realize i dont think anythings actually going to be done about this or come of this, but i at least wanted to put the question on the record of whether the vote. Well, any of the votes, but the one that im most interested in is the vote last week on dgo nine or. Yeah, dgo 9. 07, as i have read the requirements of the city of california of San Francisco, you are required to be in person unless one of three exceptions is present, but that those exceptions are not a policy body, on parental leave or or disabled. And if you want to claim that youre not a policy body, that would be awesome. Because we could just undo all the policies that i dont like that you have done. But i think its clear youre a policy body. So that exception does not apply. Parental leave and disability are the only two exceptions left out, one of your members was not present in person last week. Despite the very clear requirement that everyone be present and of course, if you want to participate remotely, just so you can listen and maybe share your views, but if participation is required to be in person. And by the way, the, human relations director for giving a pass is not one of the exceptions in the rules that are, published for citizens to, be aware of and for transparency, unless. So, that is not an acceptable excuse. So unless one of those two other excuses was present, i dont think the vote on the dgo was actually valid. I think it would, or his vote would be void. And then the vote was 3 to 3. So i just wanted to put that on the record as a. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners, alan burdell here, something really astounding, happened a couple of weeks ago here in a desperate act to effectively ban pretext stops, which are the cornerstone of proactive policing. In a desperate act to ban them before voters could say that you cant for members of this Police Commission voted to do something no other county in california has done, in something that was rejected in sacramento recently, and that is to restrict the use of pretext stops the decision of four of you. Just two weeks ago was a gross display of your raw contempt, raw contempt for voters, and who was huffing and puffing the hardest to get this done. Just a week before voters were to determine how much power we want this Police Commission to have over our sfpd, its the commissioners smirking at me right now. Its commissioner Vice President max carter oberstein. Thats the huffer and puffer. And also to his left, Commission President cynthia elias. So San Francisco, if you ever see the name max carter oberstein on a ballot or youre running and if you ever see the name cindy elias on a ballot, i urge you, dont fill in that oval. They are grinning with contempt for you as they superseded your voice last week, and theyre seething with contempt for all voters at this very moment, after they thwarted the will of San Francisco voters, voters who just yesterday clipped their wings big time with a 20 point margin of victory to support mayor breeds prop e, any future mayor otto right now say that theyre going to bounce these two. Thank you. Commissioners, 25 years ago, Latino Community leaders established a thing called the San Francisco latino steering committee. One of the things that they, these sisters dealt with, and i was part and parcel of it was the fact that latinos were not being recruited in what we thought, an appropriate manner. We brought it to the attention of the chief at the time that we felt that the screening process was a pretty lily white, operation. And we and i remember saying to him, i said, chief, its what i refer to. What theyre using is the fbi system, meaning friends and brothers and inlaws and the rest of us can go, so when cops, latinos, joined this department, one of the things that has been inspected is that they put that brown stuff in their shoe and keep it there, that theyre blue, meaning theyre not white. So as you see the ranks today, were at 19, there are the rest of it is about 45 white. And its important for me and my children and their children and the children of the people in my community to see themselves reflected within this department. Im going to give you this one scenario that happened to me a few years ago. I live, behind molly stones, and it is my custom to salute all uniform Police Officers, wherever they are. I always thank them for a job well done. Its a thankless job. And i approached a white female, officer, to say the same thing that ive said to a thousand others. And what she. When she turned around, she looked at me with such great disdain and spoke to me with such great disdain. Its important for us to see ourselves here, everywhere, up and down the ranks, its insulting and offensive not to. Were just as capable and talented as anyone else is. So i asked, especially the two latinas. And im sorry that commissioner larry yee is not here. And, commissioner walker understands the issues my community has been dealt with. So i appreciate all of your hard work. Thank you very much. Thank you. Police officers in the room. Greetings assistant chiefs. Greetings. My name is leticia flores, and there was an initiative on the ballot yesterday to have less reporting duties from Police Officers. Well, im a victim of police brutality. And also negligence by tenderloin precinct headquarters of San Francisco Police Department, where ive been a victim of crime not only by police, but citizens of San Francisco. And every time i walk into eddie and jones precinct at tenderloin headquarters, they say im crazy. Im 51, 50, and i just want to see, more accountability. And i want to know and a question for the commission. How will you raise, accountable for arrests and reporting requirements and having your staff as Police Officers do their duties. And i wouldnt know against having the citizens, you know, have these town hall commissions, what the initiative was something to the effect that there would be less reporting if theres citizen coming in and describing something or other in involvement with commission hearings, stuff like that. So anyways, another thing is the fentanyl crisis is not what it is. Its called fences or an open air black market of latino men that stand there even before covid, even before fentanyl came to San Francisco, there was an open black market at ten un plaza, and these men stand would stand there from seven in the morning to 11 p. M. With bucket loads of money, wads over thousands of dollars more money than the honduran gentlemen that are mules, would even gather more than the wool block. African american teenagers selling legal marijuana, to help pay for the rent. These kids are not the problem. Its these grown men that found out work for the city. Thank you so much. You guys want fed . I also heard from urban alchemy. Says you guys want, the feds to come in for federal indictments . Thank you. Do your job. Start with San Francisco, San Francisco pd. Okay, i grew up in a neighborhood with many Police Officers. Retired officers, active chp, the then Police Spokesman for the sfpd, and a Police Officer, widow and son who lived up the street. None. None of these persons were anything like the other. In fact, they didnt even know one another, even though they all live really closely together. All the children attended the same schools. So yeah. Police. I dont see police as one. You know, Homogenous Group at all. But onto the issue, i believe that its necessary for the Police Department and our prosecutors to, reduce, if not curtail, which would be the near ideal, the long standing phenomena which has become ingrained in Police Enforcement and our legal culture, specifically in criminal law of, well, its called up charging and example of up charging might be as simple as arresting a suspect on a felony, booking them on multiple misdemeanors in an effort to pressure the suspect into accepting a single misdemeanor charge. On what . And the most egregious circumstances would rest on a crime that might reasonably be defined as an infraction. So, from a felony arrest, a felony being so severe a crime that one would lose the rights to vote, run for election, or bear firearms to immediate right down to multiple misdemeanors in an effort to gain leverage over a defendant who might reasonably be cited on an infraction. So this is where we as a community, as a collective society, lose our sense of justice, ethics and morality. Good evening. Im here to talk about my son, aubrey. I do want to thank you. That did acknowledge that i come here. Sometimes i need to hear that because sometimes i just feel like im not being heard. But i know you hear me. So thank you for acknowledging me and my son, i come here every wednesday. I was so glad to see all of the homicide detail people down here. I didnt expect to see that, but. And collectively, im hoping that all of them can get together. I went out there when they were all standing out there and brought these pictures with me and asked them, please dont forget about my child. Dont forget about my baby. Ive been coming here for years and they all know me. And i just ask my homicide inspector, when are you going to call me . He said hes going to call me tomorrow at 10 00. Im hoping he does. And im hoping that he has some answers for me instead of saying, theres nothing else, theres nothing going on now. Theres nothing we can do, no ones come forth. This is all ive been hearing for years and years. What are we going to do to solve these unsolved homicides . Instead of hearing good of me hearing theres nothing, theres nothing, theres nothing. This is what i hear. I want to hear something. Instead of taking these pictures out there. And showing them my sons body. I want people to see how im feeling. Not just talking about it, but to see it. Those of you that are mothers and fathers, you wouldnt want to go through what im going through. Im not over this and i will never be over. The body keeps the score. The body keeps the score. Im not coming here to entertain. Im coming here as a grieving mother and im still hurting. I want my sons case solved. Give me some kind of closure. Thank you. For members of the public that have any information regarding the murder of aubrey abercastle, you can call the anonymous 24 7 tip line at 415 5754444. Commissioners, that is the end of Public Comment. Next item please. Line item three. Consent calendar. Receive and file action. Sfpds. Fourth quarter document protocol memo and dpas Fourth Quarter document protocol memo. Ill make a motion to receive and file. Second, members of the public would like to make Public Comment regarding the consent calendar line. Item three. Please approach the podium. There is no Public Comment on the motion. Commissioner walker, how do you vote . Yes, commissioner walker is. Yes. Commissioner benedicto. Yes. Commissioner benedicto is. Yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Commissioner yanez is yes, commissioner. Burn. Yes, commissioner. Burn is. Yes. Vice president carter. Yes. Vice president carter auberson is. Yes. And president elias. Yes. President elias is. Yes. You have six yeses. Line item four adoption of minutes. Action for the meetings of february 7th, 14th and 21st, 2024. I get a motion. Motion to adopt the minutes. Second, members of the public would like to make Public Comment regarding line item for the adoption of minutes. Please approach the podium. I believe the minutes for february 21st should be revised to reflect that one of the commissioners was not at present, as is required under the rules and therefore their vote was void. Thank you. Alan braddell and i would also make the same request that the prior speaker just made about correcting the minutes to show that yanez was not here last week during that vote. Thank you. Two weeks ago. Thank you, sergeant on the motion, commissioner walker, how do you vote . Yes, commissioner walker is. Yes, commissioner benedicto. Yes. Commissioner benedicto is. Yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Commissioner yanez is yes, commissioner. Burn. Yes, commissioner. Burn is. Yes. Vice president carter. Yes. Vice president carter. Yes. And president elias. Yes. President elias is. Yes. You have six yeses. Line item five. Chiefs report. Discussion weekly crime trends and Public Safety concerns provide an overview of offenses, incidents or events occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety. Commission discussion on unplanned events and activities a chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. Chief scott, thank you. Excuse me. Thank you, sergeant youngblood. Good evening, president elias. Vice president carter, commission and executive director henderson and the public, just a general, update on crime trends to start off Violent Crime down 15, property crime down 33 year to date for a total part one Crime Reduction of 30. Thats a difference of about 2600 crimes fewer than this time last year. In terms of Violent Crimes, our homicides are down actually 50. We had eight this time last year for our, year to date. As of tonight , shooting victims are down 22 and total gun violence victims are down 30, ghost guns. We have seized 40 ghost guns. Im sorry. Zero ghost guns this year, as opposed to 40 this time last year. By by the end of january last year, we had 40 ghost guns seized. So there has been a reduction in ghost gun seizures, but our total gun seizures are at 141, which is about 20 or 19 different or fewer than this time last year, a couple of significant incidents. Over this past week. There were two shootings in the city. Both resulted in, two victims that were nonfatal injuries. One was at the 2100 block of revere in the Bayview District on february 27th. The other one was on february 28th on the on Junipero Serra boulevard. Both victims were injured, but no life threatening injuries, and those cases are still under investigation and no arrest at this time. There are also three stabbings that happened over this week. One was on the 800 block of ellis on the 26th february at 12 35 p. M, the second one was on 24th and mission or at 24th and mission on the 29th of february, and the third was at willow and Willow Street and van ness avenue on the 3rd of march, at 11 24 a. M. The common theme in these three stabbings is they all, resulted from arguments and arguments led to stabbings. No arrests have been made. All of these cases are still under investigation as far as other significant events, there was a protest that happened this past saturday. It began at harry bridges plaza, and it culminated, on montgomery street near the israeli consulate. Now, it was reported by several Media Outlets that the sfpd officers involved use force on Peaceful Protesters. During this protest at the 400 block of montgomery street, the crowds attempted to breach the barricades, and in the process, one officer was spat on by a protester and other protesters threw bottles and other objects at officers. Some of which struck the officers. All of this was captured on the officers body. Worn cameras. During this exchange, pepper spray and batons were used and there were no serious injuries, two officers were injured and at least one person, on the involved in the protest was reported to have an injury, but none of them were serious. So, there is a there is an investigation on this, but i just wanted to point out that what was reported on saturday that that Peaceful Protesters had forced use upon them, the Body Worn Camera actually indicates a different story. So i just want to make sure that that is put out there as well, we had a chance to review the Body Worn Cameras and actually, what i just described was captured on the Body Worn Camera , last couple of items to report. The narcotics unit had a very successful week this past week, which led to the seizure of approximately 46 pounds of narcotics. Of that, approximately 10 pounds of that was fentanyl. Thats quite thats quite a bit of narcotics. There were numerous search warrants served. All of them were outside of the city. But this was all narcotics that would have ended up in the tenderloin, the people that were being investigated or connected to the tenderloin narcotics trade, there were a total of seven arrests that were made. And theres still more investigation to be done on this case. So i just want to give a hats off to the narcotics investigation. This investigation has been going on for a couple of months, and its not over yet. So really good work there. And again, part of the goal and the objective is to disrupt this market by taking narcotics off the street, of the other, 10 pounds of fentanyl, as i reported, and the other approximately 45 pounds, 35 pounds was meth. So a really good, good job. By the, by the officers in that case. And that concludes my report for this week. Thank you. Thank you chief. Mr. Young thank you, chief, for the report. Thank you, president elias, with regards to the enforcement and the tenderloin, i know that, you know, the numbers of Overdose Deaths have stayed pretty consistent, right . As far as we understand. And, even after this enforcement has had been initiated, my understanding is one of the objectives of this approach is to get drugs off the streets so that people arent overdosing. So we should be making an impact on that. But it doesnt feel, i mean, evidence is demonstrating that we have not reduced the number of overdoses with this new intervention. And when the intervention started in may of last year or april, may of last year, i you know, i on an ongoing basis, ive been asking what are the tangible objectives, what are the outcomes, what are the metrics that were looking for success and if Overdose Deaths are decreasing, the number of deaths isnt one of those outcomes, what are those numbers . What are those approaches and what is, going to inform the next step that we take when, after eight months of this intervention, we have not improved the outcomes when it comes to Overdose Deaths in the city . Yeah. Well, for as far as the police action, i dont definitely we all want to see fewer Overdose Deaths, but part of our objective from the policing standpoint has always been to disrupt, to remove as much as we can remove as much narcotics, particularly fentanyl, off the streets as we can. And then the other thing is disrupt the open air, sales and usage of narcotics. I do think we have made some definitely made some impact. There the night market is still a huge challenge for us. But as far as the day market, which is where we started in may on the on really the focus was on the day market things. Things have gotten much better. And if you look at some of the areas where there used to be, 1020 drug dealers selling drugs on the streets in the daytime, in the broad daylight, not so much anymore in the daytime. Now, night time is still a challenge, and were weve shifted a lot of our resources tonight, so hopefully over time, we will hopefully well see some impact on the overdose picture, but from a policing standpoint, really the objective is to disrupt, to seize as much as we can to help disrupt that market, to definitely focus on the dealers. I mean, the majority of the investigations have focused all of the investigations are focused on the dealers, not just the street dealers, but like some of the arrests that i just mentioned, where it goes above the street dealers. So i do think theres been some some impact and some success there, we need everybody on the team, Public Health and the Service Providers to really hopefully impact this overdose picture. And they are on the team. So i think we just have to keep working, you know, were what, ten months into this now, 11, ten months, not even ten months, nine months into this. So i do think theres a lot of work to be done. And we still need to figure out some things in terms of how were going to address this overdose market. Is it department anywhere close to considering the cart program or funding the cart program that, has been, you know, extensively evaluated or at least researched and we participated in this. We have a resolution on, it is a plausible potential alternative to this approach that we have taken. And, i believe its still on the table. I mean, we had a resolution last year that says we support launching this program, but we havent taken steps to actually activate this. Yeah, i believe that funding for the cart program. So the funding, was approved by the board and then i believe an rfp dem from the department of Emergency Management actually is responsible for managing, but the Program Actually is, part i cant remember exactly what the acronym stands for, but part heart. Right. So that has been implemented and its not heart is not cart. No. Lets be clear. Heart is not cart. Its what the Program Actually ended up being. Was heart not cart. I think with some i dont know if its all of the concept, its from the cart program. But i do know that it was modeled from that program. So that is up and running, thats a dem managed program. We have been as far as its not sfpd program, but we definitely support it. So that is up and running and its been up and running for, probably about half of the last year up until now. And so the department does fund programs. I mean, theres this you know, i know that, Vice President carter oversaw agendized the sf safe resources and the and the fiasco that happened there around oversight. There were about my understanding is 5 million in question that we dont have invoices for that could have easily funded cart itself, the actual program. And so im just pointing this out because, oftentimes ive heard you say that there are that we have to just try something different. And what were trying is not improving the outcomes when it comes to Overdose Deaths. And yet we have the ability to fund an Evidence Based Program that we know can have an impact. Yet were not making those efforts or were not, extend the support to that effort. And i wanted to make sure that we are clear that what is being funded is not cart and that there is still a very Clear Program design thats based on evidence based models that has training and Capacity Building as embedded in the development of the program that is still on the table as a resource. Yeah. So just a couple of things, commissner, on that. There was never a desire or an ask for cart to be funded by or through the Police Department. I met with the cart people, several meetings with them, and that was never, ever even on the table as far as the Police Department funding that program in terms of where the funding went. Like i said, the concept was funded and it ended up being put under dem for management, and that process ended up with this heart program. So that was actually outside of anything that the Police Department had control over, we work with them with as much as we can in terms of making sure we support whats happening with this heart program, no matter what its called. I think its our duty to help try to make it happen and make it work for the betterment of our city. But that was beyond our control as the point here. And i did meet with the folks who organized the cart, many times. There was never a desire or a need by that group to have the Police Department sponsor that program. Those are my only questions. Thank you, chief commissioner burke. Thank you, president elias, chief, with regards to the demonstration, was the Body Worn Camera released to the public, yet . It has not been. Is there a plan for sfpd to release the Body Worn Camera . We. My understanding is theres probably going to be a. I dont know if its gotten to dpa yet, but the way it was reported that, for use on peaceful protest will trigger an investigation. So we have watched the Body Worn Camera, i have watched the Body Worn Camera. And at which time we can release it. We will. And when do you think youll be able to release it . I need to follow up and see whether theres actually an investigation going with dpa. Im not sure that that has been. Its up to dpa. No, no, im just saying we dont want to release. We typically communicate about releasing these things if theres an ongoing investigation. So thats all im saying. So you have no no date as to when the body not not right now, but i definitely will communicate. And if theres not anything that prevents us from releasing, we can release it. Definitely. So when we come back in two weeks, we have a date, then. Yeah. By then. Sure. Yes. Okay thank you. My next question. There were 19 officers sworn in last week. Are are any of them going to the tenderloin in the evening shifts where you just talked about the shortage . I just signed the transfer. If you give me a minute, i can look at the transfer and tell you where theyre going, but i have to look it up. So i dont know. Do you know if any are going to the tenderloin . I can look at it. I mean, i have it, i have it here, i can i can look at it and give me a second to, well yeah, i mean i its partly rhetorical. Is there any plans on increasing the swing shift in the tenderloin . The regular officers, not the officers that are, that are out, you know that, you know, the patrol officers, the ones that are there, you know, at nighttime when you walk around, is there any plans on increasing those numbers with the 19 new officers . I dont know that. Let me check and see if we send any to general. I can answer that question right now. I mean, its and if the answer is no, i mean, the only we just had signups. So we may have had a shift in day versus night deployment, but i can definitely answer the question of whether any officer are on the right. But the point is, is there going to be an increase in the evening, in the evening, down in the tenderloin and the swing . Say that that that will be right now, commissioner, because we, you know, trying to balance the department, i understand, right. But to be fair, you even brought up that there was a shortage, right . Theres shortages all over using this to entrap you. Chief, im just pointing out you brought it up. Im following up. Theres 19 new officers. Im not sure whether one of the 19 goes down, but will it allow for an increase . In other words, can you commit to the city that there will be an increase . You spoke about the shortage. Can you commit to the city that there will be an increase in those officers . As you freely acknowledge, theres a shortage in the swing shift. So can you commit now to increase it . Let me give you an answer. Ill wait in two weeks. When we come back. Yes, i would prefer to do that because their shortage is all over the city. Thats all. I understand that, but you know where the need is the greatest, right . Okay. Thank you chief. Thanks thanks. Good evening chief. Thank you for the report. I wanted to follow up on something that you said to commissioner yanez, which when he was asking you about the tenderloin operations, you said that the focus of the operations are on or the focus of the investigations. I think your words were were on drug dealers and i did want to that that did strike me, given as weve spoken about many, many times, that we have eight officers and a sergeant full time focused on drug users, not dealers. And what i estimate roughly to be another three fte officers, also focusing on users. So how do you square that . That staffing choice with the statement that the focus is actually on dealers . Yeah. The investigations like the one i mentioned. I mean thats a months long investigation. Yeah. We still do have a street enforcement team. The youth team. Theyre still out there. But these investigations i mean those arent those are observing open air usage. They make the arrests and then that is off to the next one. When i speak of investigations, im talking about the actual narcotics investigations, the spotting operations, the search warrants, the actual investigations. The focus is dealers. And thats what the narcotics officers that are assigned to work that side of this equation. Thats what they do. Fair enough. So that makes sense. So youre saying the investigations piece of it is focused on dealers okay. Because the staffing doesnt reflect a focus on dealers. Right we still have a narcotics. Well i understand we have one. Im just saying the relative staffing doesnt reflect a priority on dealers, because the other thing you said was that, you know, one of the key goals is to get drugs off the street and arresting users isnt obviously the most efficient way to get drugs off the street. Right yeah, we still are. To answer your question, yeah, there are still a dedicated group of officers to do that, to disrupt the open air drug usage. So yes, that is, but we also have i would say, the majority of the resources in that effort actually goes toward the dealer and the investigations, because the pretty much the entire narcotics unit, thats what they do. Theyre theyre doing those types of operations. What would you say . Its the majority of the arrests or dealers. I think its probably only, i think there were two, about 2500 arrests since this effort started and probably about a thousand or so were dealers. Okay. So 60 of the arrests are users. Correct . Is if i understood what you said. Correct. Right. Okay so thats pretty surprising, chief. I mean, when you talk about how were choosing to allocate our resources at a time of understaffing, given the statistics that that i and brought up in the past that commissioner yanez just raised tonight, dont you think its time to reallocate at least some of that towards dealers . 60 of arrests being users. And the results being street conditions not changing as a result, overdose is skyrocketing to record levels, isnt it time to maybe focus a bit more on on dealers at this point, we are focused on dealers, but i would not agree. The street conditions are not changing. I think there have been some changes and definitely changes in street conditions. And, aside from more people dying, street conditions with open air usage and some of the, the areas that weve been focused on to disrupt that behavior. Yeah, there have been some changes there, definitely. We have more work to do. And like i said, the night market is a challenge. But, you know, when this was rolled out, it was rolled out in phases. And that first phase was really the u. N. Plaza, market street, basically from sixth street to eighth street, seventh street, seventh and mission. Those areas are much, much better. Much better. So i do think there are changes. And look, im not saying that theres not still challenges because there are and disrupting that market of open air drug usage. I still think is something that we have to do now at some point, maybe there will be different strategies to deal with that. But we have to get to that work as well, because that is also an issue for us in the city. All right, wanted to ask you about you raised the protest related to the war in gaza. It was i didnt catch this in your report. It was also reported by at least one news outlet that, one protesters hand was broken as a result of a baton strike. Is that correct . According to your understanding . Well, yeah, we believe that that person was a protester, might i say we believe because the report was made at the station and that person did report that they were at the protest. So we do believe that that person was injured in the protest. I did mention that one of the protesters were injured. Injured . Yeah, i did catch that. Okay. And, if i recall at the time that the article that i read at least was published, sfpd declined to comment when asked whether, force was used in terms of pepper spray or batons. But you are now confirming that that that that did occur just to be perfectly clear. Yes. Pepper spray and batons. Okay and then last follow up on something commissioner byrne asked. I just wanted to be clear what what would be the conditions that would need to be met in order for sfpd to release the body cam footage . I want to make sure that the if theres not an investigation and this doesnt interfere with the investigation, its okay to release it. So if dpa is investigating this case case, then you you might still release it. If it wouldnt, interfere with their investigation. Is that is that is that correct . The criteria and the policy, one of the three criterias is if it doesnt jeopardize an investigation. So thats a check that we do before we release a video. And if thats the case, its free to be released. I mean, there are two other criterias, but thats one of them. Okay. Thanks, chief. Thats everything for me. Members of the public that would like to make Public Comment regarding line item five, the chiefs report. Please approach the podium. I like to use the overhead. The 0, has been paid out concerning, unsolved. Unsolved unsolved homicides in nearly a decade. And i had brought up to the Police Commission that, you know, neither city officials nor their families are allowed to receive rewards. Neither are those who help in a case part as part of a plea bargain. Our settlement people with people wanted by the law who are who are. Im sorry. Over information so that their rivals can go to jail. So what im what im trying to say is were trying to find other ways to solve these unsolved, unsolved homicides. There was another one that these are two articles by the same reporter, that the police chief is, you know, trying to highlight about unsolved homicides. This was a this was a report that you guys brought last time about the unsolved homicides. But it doesnt it doesnt say anything about the new thing that were trying to do about unsolved homicides. I know my sons picture is on one of these. I dont have time to talk about it too much. You can bring it back to me. The. Im waiting for april for dpw and the police to come together about solving how to pay tipsters. To pay. You could bring the camera back to me, how to pay tipsters to, to solve these homicides. The paying some of them some kind of money to solve the unsolved homicides. So im still waiting to find out some information so that i can let other mothers so they can come here and voice their opinion about that, too, because we need our cases solved. Its been a long time. Thank you. There is no further Public Comment line item six dpa directors report discussion report on recent activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether the calendar, any of the issues raised for a future Commission Meeting. Executive director henderson thank you. So currently we have 106 cases that have opened so far this year, and weve closed 110 cases, we still have 307 cases that are open and pending. And again, that number is up from the same time last year, we have sustained 14 cases, and we have two cases that weve mediated so far. We have 30 cases that, have investigations that have gone longer than 270 days. Again that is still before the 3304 deadline date, and we have not had any of the cases go beyond that date to have lost jurisdiction, of those 30 cases, 19 of them are told ten cases are still pending with the commission. Pending a resolution. And we have 96 cases pending resolution with the chiefs office, this week, we received 20 cases, came in and of the cases that came in, the top allegations that came in were 22 of those allegations were for conduct unbecoming of an officer and 16 of the allegations were for allegations of neglect of duty, the largest divisions or precincts, came from southern, where three of the allegations came in, from that precincts. Again, the full 100 and a breakdown of all of those, 20 cases can be found online at, sf gov forward slash dpa, also this week, an outreach, we were able to restock the brochures and complaint forms as a reminder, that information is at every precinct that you go into. You can see and have information on how to contact dpa directly, without having to contact the Police Department directly. We also attended, this week, the richmond Station Community meeting as well, to answer questions and to make a presentation about dpa and how the organization works, in terms of our audit, we received our responses that came from back from the department, the initial audit information and so right now, were in the process of reviewing that information. And preparations for our conference with the department. I believe we still have the, the, secondary inquiry out to the commission as well. So well be looking forward to those, from the commission specifically. We are currently in closed session. We have one, two, three, four of the cases that are in closed session this evening, present and the audience today in the hearing room is senior investigator chris chisnell, also our new director of policy, jermaine jones. And also our chief, deanna rosenstein is here in the courtroom, is here in the room with us today. Oh my god, for folks that want to get in contact with dva, they can contact us on the website at sf gov. Sf gov. Org dpa, they can also contact us directly at 415 2417711, i will reserve my comments on the subsequent agenda items until they are called and reserve my comments for that. That concludes my report. Thank you, director henderson. Sergeant members of the public would like to make Public Comment regarding line item six. Please approach the podium. There is no Public Comment on line item seven. Commission reports discussion and possible action Commission President s report, commissioners reports and commission announcements and schedule of items identified for consideration at a future Commission Meeting. Thank you. I wanted to address the likely passing of proposition e. The commission has reached out to the City Attorney, and we are meeting with relevant agencies in the department to create a comprehensive and sensible way to implement the prop e. In the meantime, we will do our best to keep the public informed of next steps and progress. Since we have some time to implement the proposition and the other announcements. O commissioner benedicto, thank you, president elias, a couple of things, for my report, i joined the sfpd contingent for the Lunar New Year parade for the year of the dragon, which was a really tremendous turnout of members of the public, and a great contingent, it did not rain, which was also an added bonus as well, additionally, i, along with a number of other commissioners, was present at the last academy graduation. Commissioner byrne noted that we had 19, graduates that an academy graduation. Thats the largest graduating class of the academy. And a number of years. And ive been told that the class following them is larger still, so that was nice to welcome those 19 officers, to the department. And good to hear they got their assignments. Tomorrow ill be having my quarterly meeting, with Steve Flaherty as part of my role as the dpa audit liaison, i believe at that meeting, well also discuss whatever that new audit related responsibility was that i apparently volunteered for, but cant recall at this moment, but looking forward to that as well, i know, yes, i know it was something Award Winning a war with our Award Winning audit team, i know that Commission Staff asked on behalf of the audit team, the commissioners, to fill out the audit survey, the dpa prepared as your audit liaison. Im going to also add that reminder to please do that. It will help determine what i raise with the audit team and with the audit team brings to the whole commission. So thank you. Yeah, ill resend it. Commissioner byrne. And thank you, president elias, in the recently, the election last night, property refers to, particular dgos that this commission has enacted, go 3. 015. 015. 03, 5. 05 and 5. 06, do i understand, that the commission will agendize those items, fairly soon as to what action to take as the as proposition e gives us a drop dead date, later on. You have your blue folder. Fill it out, youre not going to make any public commitment tonight. Blue. Purple. Purple oh, yeah. Thats right. Well theyre actually purple, but thats okay. Okay. Thank you. But are you going to make any public commitment tonight as to agendize those items . I think i made my announcement so put it in the purple. So youre not going to go any further tonight. Okay is am i correct in saying that ive already given my statement. Thank you, commissioner walker, thank you, president elias. I just want to make a couple of announcements. I did a ride along in the richmond station. Captain kenny was great in hosting me and introduced me to the staff out there. And rode along for a couple of hours, i recommend it highly for everyone. If you havent done it, i think, commissioner benedicto and i are also scheduled for later this month to do a ride along in the tenderloin overnight. So well report back and, let you all know, but i encourage all the commissioners to do that because i think it gives you an idea about what the chief is talking about when hes talking about things improving. Because i think that, my experience down in the tenderloin and walking, and spending a lot of time there, i meet a lot of folks down in the tenderloin and, it really has gotten better during the day. So yeah, i did the Lunar New Year parade, too. It was pretty amazing. Very well coordinated, and one of the most crowded ive seen throughout the whole route, it was great, a lot of excitement, and everybody really loved it, let me see. Ive also met with a couple of folks from who are who were working with the patrol specials, the last patrol special. Youve all seen the tv show, and i wanted to just get a sense of sort of what their concerns are Going Forward and explained that were in the process of reviewing that program and will be, putting it on the agenda to discuss it within the next month or two in the next few weeks, theyre really concerned because they really had a Good Relationship with the existing patrol special. Alan buyer, i think, is his name. I also want to thank the chief. I think the station there gave a really good, Going Away Party to alan. His retirement date was, march 1st, one of the really successful patrol specials, partnerships. And, he was totally not expecting it. Went to sign out at night and the whole station gave him a Going Away Party. So it was really touching. So i want to thank you for that, chief, march. March 1st. Thank you, president elias. Quick report from me, still meeting with the Community Assessment Referral Center about, the pre booking juvenile diversion program, i know that commissioner benedicto has agendized a dgo 701, conversation. Do we have a date for that . Commissioner benedicto i think based on when they expected it to be up for a vote, we were trying to find a date. If it made sense to put it on there, if it would just come up for final adoption. So i dont think theres a fixed date. Okay then id like to agendize. I wanted to see if, as a part of that conversation around the dgo, we could also, include our an update around the pre booking diversion program, but it seems like theyre very separate items. Chief, would you have a preference to how we proceed with scheduling, another conversation around an update for prebooking diversion. No, i dont have a preference. Whatever whatever works for the commission. Okay. Because i think were approaching a year since we had that last conversation, and i would love for us to. Ill make sure to fill out the purple binder folder and that we have a presentation on that, just to see what progress weve made and to, hopefully get closer to agreements with the Community Partners on this effort, the other update i have is around our investigative social media. Dgo, dpa has been hard at work. I thought i saw jermaine here earlier, he might have stepped out, but, they have done a wonderful job, just kind of gathering best practices, meeting with Community Experts in this field to recommend a draft of the dgo that were going to present to the department pretty soon to begin to, figure out what the next step is in order to adopt an investigative social media dgo. And then i did have a question. I mean, there was an article around, around, that cj put out around clearance rates chiefs a few weeks ago, i think it indicated something, about the fact that even though there are fewer reports, being made for Violent Crime, you know, our clearance rates continue to plummet outside of our homicide detail, which is doing a wonderful job, did you read that report . Do you have any comments on, any of the, any of the data that was presented there . I did read it, and i dont have any comments, but i did read it. Yeah i just wanted to make sure that, you know, obviously, i brought up clearance rates not too long ago. And today we honored, one of our better, teams at that in that area. And i would love for us to have a conversation about the ongoing efforts of the department to improve our clearance rates in those areas that are of concern, so ill make sure that we fill that document out and we can agendize that down the road. Thank you. Sergeant. Thats purple to some of us members of the public would like to make Public Comment regarding line item seven. Please approach the podium. There is no Public Comment. Line item eight discussion and possible action to adopt department general order 9. 07. Restricting. Restricting the use of pretext. Stopped. As to the other bargaining units. Discussion and possible action. Colleagues, we enacted this policy last week, only as to the po, this week before us is the exact same policy, and today im going to make a motion to enact dgo 9. 07 only as to the mayor, with a delay of implementation for training, so that it goes into effect at the same time that the policy will go into effect for the poa subject to the terms outlined in Commission Resolution 24, dash 34, second. Sergeant for members of the public would like to make Public Comment regarding line item eight. Please approach the podium. There is no Public Comment on the motion. Commissioner walker, how do you vote . No, mr. Walker is no. Commissioner benedicto. Yes. Commissioner benedicto is. Yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes yanez is. Yes, commissioner. Burn. No, commissioner. Burn is no commissioner. Im sorry, Vice President carter. Yes Vice President carter is. Yes. And president elias. Yes. President is. Yes. You have four yeses and two nos. Thank you, officer jones and miss preston for being present. Next item. Line item nine. Discussion and possible action to adopt revised department. General order 9. 05 citation control discussion and possible action. Did you, sergeant . Did you . Yeah. There was none. None. Sorry theres no Public Comment. Yes, sergeant jones. Oh, officer jones sorry. Thank you. Sorry. Is that binding you just promoted . Im making a motion. Sergeant jones. Yes, ill second it. Thank you. Officer jones, traffic company, San Francisco Police Department, and im here to submit geo 9. 05 citation control for possible, adoption there. This policy i believe i presented it before about a month ago, theres been no changes. Were still looking at the 30 day or. Excuse me, the 45 day implementation period. Weve already just drafted a department notice, so were ready to roll this out, and im submitting it to you for possible adoption and approval. Thank you. I see no questions on the dais. Can i get a motion to accept motion to adopt, 9. 05, second 45. Yes hes fast. Sergeant. He only needs 45 days. 45. All right. For any member of the public like to make Public Comment regarding line item nine, please approach the podium. There is no Public Comment on the motion. Commissioner walker, how do you vote . Yes. Mr. Walker is. Yes. Commissioner benedicto. Yes. Commissioner benedicto was. Yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Commissioner yanez is. Yes commissioner byrne. Yes. Commissioner byrne is. Yes. Vice president carter stone, yes. Vice president stone is. Yes. And president elias. Yes. President elias is. Yes. You have six yeses. Next item. Line item ten. Discussion and possible action to adopt. Revised department general order 9. 04. Seatbelt policy discussion and possible action. Hello. Good evening, president elias. Chief scott, commissioners. Director henderson. Officer wolkowitz traffic company, San Francisco police. Im here to bring back 904, it went to the poa and went to meet and confer, theres a couple items that were lined out , but it is, i think, ready to roll out at this point with a 90 day implementation period. Perfect. Okay. Can i get a motion motion to adopt general order 9. 04 second . Second. Yell it out. Sergeant, for any member of the public can make Public Comment regarding line item ten. Please approach the podium. Seeing none on the motion. Commissioner walker, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner walker is. Yes. Commissioner. Benedicto. Yes, commissioner benedicto is. Yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes she is. Yes. Commissioner byrne. Yes commissioner byrne is. Yes. Vice president carter overstone. Yes. Vice president carter is. Yes. And president elias. Yes. President elias is. Yes you have six yeses. Line item 11. Discussion and possible action to adopt. Department general order 5. 25ft pursuit discussion and possible action. All right. Good evening, captain sean perdomo from the training division. Im here for the foot pursuits dgo. Item 11. How are you . All good. Hungry . Great. Tired awesome. Thirsty. A little warm. Were almost there, though. Almost across the finish line. Okay okay. Keep going, we have commissioner benedicto. Thank you, this has come before us before i assume training doesnt have any issues with the changes that were made out of meeting. Confer no. I reviewed the changes with lieutenant meehan at the field tactics and force options unit, and he has no objection to any of the proposed changes. Great, i will make a motion. I do want to note, i know we spoke more at length on this when it was first brought up to, approve and send to meet and confer. But im really glad that this department is taking the lead with the foot pursuit policy. And i think that the way this policy was drafted was is also a model of collaboration. I want to acknowledge director caywood at dpa, the training division, the fto division, as well as our fabulous dpa interns. I think that was two intern classes ago that they did their foot pursuit, presentation, if any intrepid two years ago dpa interns are still regularly watching commission. Thank you for your tremendous work. But this dgo, i hope not. I hope they found Something Better to do, but i do want to acknowledge, the, the that this is, a policy that came out of collaboration, that it came out of multiple pieces of the department and dpa collaborating. Im glad to see that happen. Id also like to acknowledge the poa. Im glad that we sent this to meet and confer in october, and its back to us right now, i would love it if all of our egos came in and out at that speed. So if lieutenant macrae is watching, id like to make that request as well, with that, i would like to make a motion to adopt. Department general order 5. 25. Director henderson. Thank you, i just wanted, to say as well, i think this came back with so few edits, but i think the fact that the process was so efficient and happened at the speed that it did it is a reflection of the collaboration that you were alluding to and having, dpa come to the table to work so collaboratively with the department is honestly the model of what we should be doing with the dgos exactly how this one went forward, you did reference the, folks, and this was a project from the interns that brought up the issue when they did their year presentation again, it came from them. A lot of that work was done by gabriel navarette, one of the law students at. Hey, im not going to say it because i might get it wrong, but one of the law students that, worked diligently on raising the idea and trying to get this added to the agenda so that we could all work on it collaboratively and it really is just the model of how efficiently we can all be, when were working collaboratively like that. I do want to acknowledge the work that janelle put in Janelle Caywood from our office, and pulling this together, and we look forward to working with the dpa, the field tactics and force options units that was instrumental in creating this draft and engaging with us through all of these several amendments that went into making the current draft that we have now, thats it. Thank you. I get a second to the motion. Second sergeant, for the record for the resolution, is there an implementation window, its already being implemented in the sense that this has already been incorporated in our training. I was able to sit in last weeks field options class on wednesday during our advanced officer continuing professional training, and there were already training to this standard using a current slide show. Yeah. So do you still want the 30 day or 45 day leeway . Yes, 45 days would be okay. Yep for members of the public, id like to make Public Comment regarding line item 11. Please approach the podium seeing none on the on the motion. Commissioner walker, how do you vote . Commissioner walker. Yes, commissioner. Benedicto. Yes, commissioner benedicto is. Yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Commissioner yanez is yes. Commissioner. Burn yes, commissioner. Burn is. Yes. Vice president carter. Yes Vice President carter is. Yes. And president elias. Yes. President lias is. Yes you have six yeses. Item 12 discussion and possible action to approve revised department general order 10. 02. Equipment for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the affected bargaining units as required by law. Discussion and possible action between chief commissioners. Director Sergeant Joseph venmo of the Administration Bureau here for 10. 02 to move into meet and confer. I dont see any, commissioners on the dais. Can i get a motion, im sorry. Go ahead. Thank you. President elias, to the City Attorney. If property if property when property comes into effect would be wed be allowed to vote on this without it going through the requirement of the new public and with the requirement of the new public engagement. And, this is a dca maneuver that im filling in this evening. Yes. I understand, im sorry to put you on the spot. No, thats okay, could you just clarify . So in in proposition a, theres a new Community Engagement process. Yes. Right. Okay. So i understand the previous dgos that were here tonight had already been had already been voted on and approved this sego has not been voted on and approved. So my question is when the new when proposition e goes into effect will this commission, when its going through the process, will it have will they have to go back and do the Community Engagement . Requirements in section g of proposition e . I am unfortunately not prepared to answer that question today. So then i would ask thats being discussed. Thats one of the issues that i raised. It doesnt go into effect till october. So if you have that question i suggest you reach out to the City Attorney beforehand instead of putting the temporary City Attorney on the spot, so weve noted your question. If you have any new questions, please ask. Otherwise im going to ask to take a vote, thank you, so could somebody from the City Attorneys Office Report back to us at the next Commission Meeting publicly . I can i can take a note of your question, and make sure that is prepared to discuss it with you, confidentially before the meeting or as appropriate, during the meeting. I would prefer it during the meeting so the public can hear. Okay ill pass on that. Thank you. Sergeant, did i get a motion . No. Can i get a motion . You didnt get a second, i dont think. All right. Can i get a second . I dont have a motion either. Oh, ill make a motion to approve. Department general order 10. 02, subject to our labor relations. Resolution 23 dash 22nd, for members of the public that would like to make Public Comment regarding line item 12, please approach the podium. There is no Public Comment on the motion. Commissioner walker, how do you vote . Yes, mr. Walker . Yes, commissioner. Benedicto. Yes, commissioner. Benedicto is. Yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Commissioner yanez is. Yes. Commissioner. Burn. Yes commissioner. Burn is. Yes. Vice president carter. Overstone. Yes. Vice president stone is. Yes. And president elias. Yes. President elias is. Yes. You have six yeses. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Line item 13, Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item 15 below. Closed session, including Public Comment on item 14. A vote whether to hold item 15 in closed session. If you would like to make Public Comment regarding closed session, please approach the podium. And there is no Public Comment. Line item 14 a vote on whether to hold item 15 in closed session. San francisco administrative code section 67. 10 action. Motion to hold item 15 in closed session. Second on the motion. Commissioner walker, how do you vote . Yes. Mr. Walker is. Yes. Commissioner benedicto. Yes. Commissioner benedicto is. Yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Commissioner yanez is yes. Commissioner. Burn youre up burn yes, commissioner. Burn is. Yes. Vice president carter. Yes. Vice president oberstar is. Yes. And president elias. Yes pres stacey. I think thats if. Well, no its not. Its staceys job. If he just had. All right. Go ahead. Finish all right, commissioners, we are back in open session. You still have a quorum on line item 16, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on m 15 held in closed San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10. Action. Motion not to disclose any discussion on item 15. Second, any member of the public like to make Public Comment regarding item 16. Please approach the podium seeing none on the motion. Commissioner walker, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner walker is. Yes. Commissioner. Benedicto. Yes, commissioner benedicto was. Yes. Commissioner. Janez. Yes. Commissioner janez is yes. Commissioner byrne. Yes. Commissioner byrne is. Yes, commissioner. Im sorry. Vice president carter overstone. Yes. Vice president carter is. Yes. And president elias. Yes. President elias is. Yes. You have six yeses. Line item 17. Adjournment. My name is bal. Born and raised in San Francisco. Cable car equipment, technically im a transit operator of 135 and work at the cable car indiscernible and been here for 22 years now. I grew up around here when i was a little can i. My mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. I ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. [ music ] fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. I started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. Basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. This is your basic Public Transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there and this powerhouse, there were 15 of them through out the entire city. I work at the Cable Car Division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. This is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at night. Joking. This is called a barn because everything takes place here and the powerhouse is thats downstairs so thats the heart and soul of the system and this is where the cable cars sleep or sleep at night so you can put a title there saying the barn. Since 1873 and back in the day it was driven by a team and now its electric but it has a good function as being called the barn. Yeah. I am the superintendent of cable car vehicle maintenance. And we are on the first and a half floor of the cable car barn where you can see the cables are moving at nine and a half miles an hour and thats causing the little extra noise were hearing now. We have 28 power cars and 12 california cars for a total of 40 revenue cars. Then with have two in storage. Theres four gear boxes. Its gears of the motor. They weigh close to 20 tons and they had to do a special system to get them out of here because when they put them in here, the barn was opened up. We did the whole barn that year so its difficult for a first of time project, we changed it one at a time and now they are all brandnew. Engineers room have the four monitors that play the speed and she monitors them and in case of an emergency, she can shutdown all four cars if she needs to. That sound you heard there, thats a gentleman building, rebuilding a cable. The cable weighs four hundred pounds each and they lost three days before we have to rebuild them. The cable car grips, the bottom point is underground with the cable. Its a giant buy strip and closes around the kab and they pull it back. The cable car weighs 2,500 people without people so its heavy, emergency pulling it offer the hill. If it comes offer the hill, it could be one wire but if it unravels, it turns into a ball and they cannot let go of it because it opens that wide and its a billion pushing the grip which is pushing the whole cable car and theres no way to let go so they have to have the code 900 to shutdown in emergencies and the wood brakes last two days and wear out. A lot of maintenance. [ music ] rail was considered to be the old thing. Rubber tires, cars, buses, thats new. There were definitely faster and cheaper, theres no question about that. Here at San Francisco, we went through the same thing. The mayor decided we dont need cable cars indiscernible , blah, blah. We can replace them with buses. They are faster and cheaper and more economical and he was right if you look at the dollars and cents part. He was right. Back in 1947 when they voted that, im surprised base of the technology and the chronicle paper says cable cars out. That was the headline. That was the demise of the cable cars. indiscernible came along and said, stop. No. No, no, no. She was the first one to say were going to fight city hall. She got her friends together and they started from a group called the save the cable car community, 1947 and managed to get it on the ballot. Are we going to keep the cable cars or not . Head turned nationwide and worldwide and city hall was completely unprepared for the amount of backlash they got. This is just a bunch the city came out and said basically, 31, if im not mistaken, we want our cars and phil and her group managed to save what we have. And literately if it wasnt for them, there would be no cable cars. People saw Something Back then that we see today that you cant get rid of a beautiful and it wasnt a Historical Monument at the time and now it is, and it was part of San Francisco. Yeah, we had freight back then. We dont have that anymore. This is the number one tourist attraction in San Francisco. Its historic and the only National Moving monument in the world. The city of San Francisco did keep the cable car so its a fascinating feel of having something that is so historic going up and down these hills of San Francisco. And obviously, everyone knows San Francisco is famous for their hills. [laughter] and who would know and who would guess that they were trying to get rid of it, which i guess was a crazy idea at the time because they felt automobiles were taking the place of the cable cars and getting rid of the cable car was the best thing for the city and county of San Francisco, but thank god it didnt. How soon has the city changed . The diverse of cable cars when i first came to cable car, sandy barn was the first cable car. We have three or four being a grip person. Fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire city. I want to thank our women who operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. We have wonderful women come on forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies, these ladies, this is what its about. Continuing to empower women. My name is Willa Johnson is and ive been at cable car for 13 years. I came to San Francisco when i was five years old. And that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a Christmas Tree and we rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first time i rode the cable car and didnt ride again until i worked here. I was in the medical field for a while and i wanted a change. Some people dont do that but i started with the mta of september of 1999 and came over to cable car in 2008. It was a general sign up and thats when you can go to Different Divisions and i signed up as a conductor and came over here and been here since. There were a few ladies that were over at woods that wanted to come over here and we had decided we wanted to leave woods and come to a Different Division and cable car was it. I do know there has been only four women that work the cable car in the 150 years and i am the second person to represent the cable car and i also know that during the 19, i think 60s and women were not even allowed to ride on the side of a cable car so its exciting to know you can go from not riding on the side board of a cable car to actually grip and driving the cable car and it opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity to do what they inspire to do. I have some people say i wouldnt make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor and the best thing i did was to come to this division. Its a good division. And i like ripping cable cars. I do. I think she just tapped into the general feeling that San Francisco tend to have of, this is ours, its special, its unique. Economically and you know, a rationale sense, does it make sense . Not really. But from here, if you think from here, no, we dont need this but if you think from here, yeah. And it turns out she was right. So. And im grateful to her. Very grateful. [laughter] three, two, one. [multiple voices] [cheers and applause] did i i did that on purpose so i wouldnt. [ music ] in the bay area as a whole, thinking about environmental sustainability. We have been a leader in the country across industries in terms of what you can do and we have a learn approach. That is what allows us to be successful. Whats wonderful is you have so many people who come here and they are what i call policy innovators and whether its banning plastic bags, recycling, composting, all the Different Things that we can do to improve the environment. We really champion. We are at recycle central, a large recycle fail on San Francisco pier 96. Every day the neighborhood trucks that pick up recycling from the blue bins bring 50 o tons of bottles, cans and paper here to this facility and unload it. And inside recology, San Franciscos recycling company, they sort that into aluminum cans, glass cans, and different type of plastic. San francisco is making efforts to send Less Materials to the landfill and give more materials for recycling. Other cities are observing this and are envious of San Franciscos robust recycling program. It is good for the environment. But there is a lot of low Quality Plastics and junk plastics and candy wrappers and is difficult to recycle that. It is low quality material. In most cities that goes to landfill. Looking at the plastics industry, the oil industry is the main producer of blastics. And as we have been trying to phase out fossil fuels and the transfer stream, this is the fossil fuels and that plastic isnt recycled and goes into the waste stream and the landfill and unfortunately in the ocean. With the stairry step there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. We can recycle again and again and again. But plastic, maybe you can recycle it once, maybe. And that, even that process it downgrades into a lower quality material. It is cheaper for the oil industry to create new plastics and so they have been producing more and more plastics so with our ab793, we have a bill that really has a goal of getting our beverage bottles to be made of more Recycled Content so by the time 2030 rolls around t recycle content in a coke bottle, pepsi bottle, water bottle, will be up to 50 which is higher thatten the percentage in the European Union and the highest percentage in the world. And that way you can actually feel confident that what youre drinking will actually become recycled. Now, our recommendation is dont use to plastic bottle to begin w but if you do, they are committing to 50 Recycled Content. The test thing we can do is vote with our consumer dollars when were shopping. If you can die something with no packaging and find loose fruits and vegetables, that is the best. Find in packaging and glass, metal and pap rer all easily recycled. We dont want plastic. We want less plastic. Awe what you we do locally is we have the program to think disposable and work one on one to provide Technical Assistance to swap out the disposable food service to reusables and we have funding available to support businesses to do that so that is a way to get them off there. And i believe now is the time we will see a lot of the Solutions Come on the market and come on the scene. And is really Logistics Company and what we offer to restaurants is reasonable containers that they can order just like they would so we came from about a pain point that a lot of customers feel which wills a lot of waste with takeout and deliver, even transitioning from styrofoam to plastic, it is still wasteful. And to dream about reusing this one to be reimplemented and cost delivery and food takeout. We didnt have throwaway culture always. Most people used to get delivered to peoples homes and then the empty milk containers were put back out when fresh milk came. Customers are so excited that we have this available in our restaurant and came back and asked and were so excited about it and rolled it out as customers gain awareness understanding what it is and how it works and how they can integrate it into their life. And they have always done it and usually that is a way of being sustainable and longterm change to what makes good Financial Sense especially as there are shipping issues and material issues and we see that will potentially be a way that we can save money as well. And so i think making that case to other restaurateurs will really help people adopt this. One restaurant we converted 2,000 packages and the impact and impact they have in the community with one switch. And we have been really encouraged to see more and more restaurants cooperate this. We are big fans of what reecology does in terms of adopting new systems and understanding why the Current System is broken. When people come to the facility, they are shocked by how much waste they see and the volume of the operations and how Much Technology we have dedicated to sort correctly and we led 25 tours and for students to reach about 1100 students. And they wanted to make change and this is sorting in the waste stream they do every single day and they can take ownership of and make a difference with. An i feel very, very fortunate that i get to represent San Francisco in the legislature and allows me to push the envelope and it is because of the people the city attracts and is because of the eco system of policy thinking that goes on in San Francisco that we are constantly seeing San Francisco leading the way. Kids know theres a lot of Environmental Issues that they are facing. And that they will be impacted by the impact of Climate Change. They will have the opportunity to be in charge and make change and make the decisions in the future. We are reinventing the way the planet does garbage founded in the environmental ethic and hunger to send less to landfills. This is so many wonderful things happening in San Francisco. I feel very fortunate and very humble to live here and to be part of this wonderful place. [music] hi. Im San Francisco mayor london breed i want to congratulate sfgovtv on 30 years of dedicated service as a broadcast channel for our vibrant city. You played a Critical Role during the pan dem and i can worked keep residents informed. Adapted to changing situations that allowed our residents to engage and participate in government. Thank you for 3 decades of informing and inspiring and connect the people of San Francisco as the voice that i dont think you need to be an expert to look around and see the increasing frequency of fires throughout california. They are continuing at an everincreasing rate every summer, and as we all know, the drought continues and huge shortages of water right now. I dont think you have to be an expert to see the impact. When people create greenhouse gases, we are doing so by different activities like burning fossil fuels and letting off Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere and we also do this with food waste. When we waste solid food and leave it in the landfill, it puts methane gas into the atmosphere and that accelerates the rate at which we are warming our planet and makes all the effects of Climate Change worse. The good news is there are a lot of things that you can be doing, particularly composting and the added benefit is when the compost is actually applied to the soil, it has the ability to reverse Climate Change by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil and the t radios. And there is huge amount of science that is breaking right now around that. In the early 90s, San Francisco hired some engineers to analyze the material San Francisco was sending to landfill. They did a Waste Characterization study, and that showed that most of the material San Francisco was sending to landfill could be composted. It was things like food scraps, coffee grounds and egg shells and sticks and leaves from gardening. Together reecology in San Francisco started this Curbside Composting Program and we were the first city in the country to collect food scraps separately from other trash and turn them into compost. It turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. It kept 2. 5 million tons of material out of the landfill, produced a beautiful nutrient rich compost that has gone on to hundreds of farms, orchards and vineyards. So in that way you can manage your food scraps and produce far less methane. That is part of the solution. That gives people hope that were doing something to slow down Climate Change. I have been into organic farming my whole life. When we started planting trees, it was natural to have compost from reecology. Compost is how i work and the soil biology or the microbes feed the plant and our job as regenerative farmers is to feed the microbes with compost and they will feed the plant. It is very much like in business where you say take care of your employees and your employees will take carolinas of your customers. The same thing. Take care of the soil microbes and soil life and that will feed and take care of the plants. They love compost because it is a nutrient rich soil amendment. It is food for the soil. That is photosynthesis. Pulling carbon from the atmosphere. Pushing it back into the soil where it belongs. And the roots exude carbon into the soil. You are helping turn a farm into a carbon sink. It is an international model. Delegations from 135 countries have come to study this program. And it actually helped inspire a new law in california, senate bill 1383. Which requires cities in california to reduce the amount of compostable materials they send to landfills by 75 by 2025. And San Francisco helped inspire this and this is a nationleading policy. Because we have such an immature relationship with nature and the Natural Cycles and the carbon cycles, government does have to step in and protect the commons, which is soil, ocean, foryes, sir, and so forth. Forest, and so fors. We know that our largest corporations are a significant percentage of carbon emission, and that the Corporate Community has significant role to play in reducing carbon emissions. Unfortunately, we have no idea and no requirement that they disclose anything about the carbon footprint, the core operation and sp360 stands for the basic notion that large corporations should be transparent about the carbon footprint. It makes all the sense in the world and very common sense but is controversial. Any time you are proposing a policy that is going to make real change and that will change behavior because we know that when corporations have to disclose and be transparent and have that kind of accountability, there is going to be opposition. We have to provide Technical Assistance to comply with the state legislation sb1383 which requires them to have a food donation program. We keep the edible food local. And we are not composting it because we dont want to compost edible food. We want that food to get eaten within San Francisco and feed folks in need. It is very unique in San Francisco we have such a broad and expansive Education Program for the city. But also that we have partners in government and nonprofit that are dedicated to this work. At San Francisco unified school district, we have a Sustainability Office and educators throughout the Science Department that are building it into the curriculum. Making it easy for teachers to teach about this. We Work Together to build a pipeline for students so that when they are really young in prek, they are just learning about the awe and wonder and beauty of nature and they are connecting to animals and things they would naturally find love and affinity towards. As they get older, concepts that keep them engaged like society and people and economics. California is experiencing many years of drought. Dry periods. That is really hard on farms and is really challenging. Compost helps farms get through these difficult times. How is that . Compost is a natural sponge that attracts and retains water. And so when we put compost around the roots of plants, it holds any moisture there from rainfall or irrigation. It helps farms make that corner and that helps them grow for food. You can grow 30 more food in times of drought in you farm naturally with compost. Farms and cities in california are very hip now to this fact that creating compost, providing compost to farms helps communities survive and get through those dry periods. Here is the thing. Soil health, climate health, human health, one conversation. If we grow our food differently, we can capture all that excess carbon in the atmosphere and store it in unlimited quantities in the soil, that will create Nutrient Dense Foods that will take care of most of our civilized diseases. So its one conversation. People have to understand that they are nature. They cant separate. We started prowling the high plains in the 1870s and by the 1930s, 60 year, we turned it into a dust bowl. That is what ignorance looks like when you dont Pay Attention to nature. Nature bats last. So people have to wake up. Wake up. Compost. It is really easy to get frustrated because we have this belief that you have to be completely sustainable 24 7 in all aspects of your life. It is not about being perfect. It is about making a change here, a change there in your life. Maybe saying, you know what . I dont have to drive to that particular place today. Today i am going to take the bus or im going to walk. It is about having us is stainable in mind. That is it is about having sustainability in mind. That is how we move the dial. You dont have to be perfect all the time. San francisco has been and will continue to be one of the greener cities because there are communities who care about protecting a special ecosystem and habitat. Thinking about the history of the ohlone and the native and Indigenous People who are stewards of this land from that history to now with the ambitious Climate Action plan we just passed and the goals we have, i think we have a dedicated group of people who see the importance of this place. And who put effort into building an infrastructure that actually makes it possible. We have a long history starting with the gold rush and the antiwar activism and that is also part of the Environmental Movement in the 60s and 70s. And of course, earth day in 1970 which is huge. And i feel very privileged to work for the city because we are on such a forefront of Environmental Issues, and we get calls from all over the world really to get information. How do cities create waste programs like they do in San Francisco. We are looking into the few which you are and we want innovation. We want solutions. The journey of becoming a firefighter is no easy feat, it requires navigating and overcoming challenges to protect and serve the community. Established in 1866, the San Francisco Fire Department has evolved and grown to represent the community and meet their needs along the way. The division of training is responsible for training all new members entering the department, as well as develop, and provide corchlhensive Fire Suppression and Emergency Medical Service instruction to all members of the department. This video provides a glims into the 130 recruit Academy Class 21 week training program. In preparation to take on one of the most challenging and rewarding professions in the world. To become a firefighter in the San Francisco Fire Department. [whistle] i oknow there is going to be a lot of shoveling and it will not come easy. I know it will not be given to me. Am i going to be able to keep up and do all the physical a pects of what the academy will request of me . On the hand you have been given a opportunity you worked so hard to get to, but on the other hand you dont have the job yet and have so much work you have to do to get in the field so it is double edge sword. I need it but this is just the beginning. [music] we are entrusted with people. Our job is indiscernible we want people to be firefighters. The chief picked the people. Our job is train them. We make sure that we are challenging them, but at the same time supporting them and that is a fine line, because we want to see how these people react. It is imperative for the Training Academy and Training Staff to make sure we are getting the best out of these individuals. I always tell them, we will challenge you, but also going to support you. We are not going to trick you into certain things but we want to make sure we make it difficult and make it so that you are performing at your best when somebody is on their worst day. The process is grueling, however, the reward at the end is what its all about. We have 21 weeks to form this group of 51, and to functioning individuals on a working engine or Truck Company in the city and the challenge there is that when you walk through the door, you should be able to take care of business right away. When i first got on the job and hit the streets and got my first fire, which is 4th alarm fire which they throw a lot of people in the big building, happened in the first 30 minutes of me stepping in the fire house. We hire a vast group of people with different backgrounds and experiences, which is kind of interesting as well, because it makes up our department and we have a kind of hodgepodge of people, but they all get taught the same thing. We have people fromwe have a guy in the class whoofs a social worker. We have a person who was a firefighter, multiple firefighters. San francisco does things different then most Fire Departments but they have upper hand so we try to pair those with some sort of experience with people who dont in study group said. We tell them the first week get in a study group and that is a group for the rest of the academy so you will be the support group for each other. My name is Julian Martin a recruit in the 130 academy for the San Francisco Fire Department. The Fire Department what drew me to it to begin is a concept you are always learning. You are always learning something a92. Now fire or situation is alike. No med call will be the same, and that aspect is something that is always changing is what drew me to it. When i was 19 i enlisted in the United States army and was in college at the time, so i was enrolled simultaneous in the reserve officer Corp Training out of leehigh university. I was indiscernible and Lee High University and completed by bachelors, but commissioned out of Lee High University as a officer in the California National guard. When i graduatesed i immediately went to fort indiscernible missouri to complete training for being a chemical officer which is indiscernible i think my background in chemical hazmat with the army was beneficial and the department as well. High energy,b that is how i categorize julian. High energy and ability. She is very capable. She is one of those people pretty much anything she tries she can do well. She is a musician also. She is a artist. She is the kind of person that push other people to be the best version of themselves, just because she also wants to be the best version of herself. She is a very dedicated individual, and it was a treat but also a challenge because that is the way she is. Very competitive and ambitious. Emilyi am a recruit with the San Francisco Fire Department. I remember how do i become a firefighter in a major city . I typed that into google and a lot of things came up. Getting certification like firefighter 1, emt, paramedic jz these are things i knew nothing about so a lot of research. For me having lived in california and visited the bay area many times i said to myself, i decided the pentacle for me of being a structure firefighter, being a city firefighter which coming to San Francisco. I am originally from new england. I grew up in a Traditional Town in new hampshire. When can i was a kid i never had Fire Fighting on my radar. Never something i thought about doing. When i in college i studied environmental conversation. I always appreciated the outdoors and really cared a lot about protecting the outdoors, so for years after college i worked with kids in the outdoor education, so taking kids on backpacking trips, takes kids on hiking trips, and just helping them develop appreciation for the outdoors. It was basically a opportunity to not have a desk job and for years i was chasing that job that didnt involve sitting at a desk and be outside with people which makes sense it leads me to firefighter. Next thing i knew i was heading up to alaska to be a firefighter. That was the switch an looked back. Emily is a person that very much someone who cares about other people and will put other people needs before her own. She is extremely caring and thoughtful. I also think she is extremely adventurous as well. I remember when we first met, when we were living in yosemite being in ah of her adventurous side. My name is jenna. Everybody called johnny for short and im a recruit with the 130 academy for San Francisco Fire Department. City girl, born and raised in San Francisco. Literally my entire schooling has been right here in the city of San Francisco, and so thats part of me and part of my identity, and what keeps me so grounded to the city i was raise d in. My brother is a firefighter and he has been a firefighter many years. He is absolutelyhe loves his job and always has tried to bring people along with him. Those he loves and that he thinks would be fit for the job. I told this lady about this service and about this career path back when she was 22 years old after graduating from usf, i tried to put in her ear, i think you would be incredible at this profession and she said ill think about it. That is always something in my ear, but to be honest, my encounter with the Fire Department that kind of sparked that interest and the reason as to why i wanted to become a firefighter, because at the age of 15 i lost my mother to gun violence and it was the Fire Department when they came to my home, it was the reaction of the firefighters that i felt cold. Their reaction to my situation. I didnt feel support. That is just my perspective of the instant it happened, but that is something that stuck with me. I dont want someone like me to go through what i went through because i know how that felt. I took the leap of faith and i said im going to change my career entirely, but now i see for myself just within my recruit class that there is a lot of diversity. It was really comforting to me to see that and know that these are the people who are going to be my first family, because we share a special bond. She was ready. She was hungry, and sheevery drill we did, every practice we did, all the exercising she was doing, she was hungry for it. I couldnt possibly be more proud of her. A real basic Building Block is just like crawl walk run. Our crawling stage is like just putting your gear on. We have our ppe, which is about 20pounds, the packs are 20 pounds. Just those two alone you throw on 40 pounds of weight and by the end of the academy we have your ppe on, go on indiscernible breathe through the bottle, climb up a ladder, crawl through a window, search fwr a victim, bring the victim through the window and extricate through the window. The progression of the testing ramp up pretty quickly. In the 10 week cycle it seems like a long time, but for the recruit you can ask them im telling you it is a rigorous academy and keeps on getting harder. Academy starts at 8 oclock. We do our pt. Whatever it may be, whether it is running in a circuit or amazing raise, and are that lasts anywhere from a hour to hour and 30. From there we go to a class room. We learn about the different chapters, whether it is indiscernible hose appliances, building construction, whatever it may be. That usually takes us to lunch and from there we get separated into skills groups. indiscernible how many victims. Which we have typically about 4 rotations of the different skills we get touches. It is still very early in the process. If you envision each class like a bell curve where most in the middle, if you have a class with really long tails those are harder to train, because you have people at the back end who are really struggling. This class seems to have small tails. I dont see anybody struggling yet. I dont see anybody truly standing out. But again, it is early. We havent done any testing yet. I am learning a lot with fellow class mates. They need me and i need them and the really difficult evolution and training and the first couple days are crucial to understanding like how people react to certain situations because not everybody is the best under pressure. Not everybody is the best tying a knot about there are some that are super fast with hose lines. Finding everybody strong point and emphasize those and use to our advantage is important in the first couple weeks. Something that challenged me probably the most and has been probably the biggest learning curve is really focusing on the ability to let go of something when it doesnt go well in the moment and move to the next thing. That i think has been one of the Biggest Challenges in this academy, because the realty is you make a lot of mistakes every day. You do a lot of things well too, but you make a lot of mistakes and if you hold on to each one of those mistakes it is just going to snow ball into more mistakes and it will lead to more stress and being hard on yourself. I had to learn a lot of different new skill sets. Things i wasnt familiar with like chain saws how to hose lines and so getting the technique because a lot of the job is about the technique. It is not about having the brute strength or anything like that, it is using your body mechanics to your advantage. When my body cools down indiscernible [music] we have the academy set up it gives everybody the opportunity to practice the skill set they need to. San francisco is its own entity. We pride ourselves on the traditional Fire Department in the sense we still use brass fittings, wooden latters, surrounded by three sides of water so all risk Fire Department. You can go downtown busy highrise, out to the coast for surf rescue. We have a mix of everything and we all have to be wellrounded firefighters and that is our entire job to make sure that we are profeshant. As we train our roles will be to evaluate along the way. The role we have is to get them ready for fire house culture. To be a firefighter requires a fair amount of discipline. You have to understand the rules of the game. Understand how to behave, how to appear, how to interact with the public and one of my roles is to make sure the recruits understand that and adhere to the codes of conduct and behavior the department lays out. Okay, today is monday. The monday after my first big week of testing. Two double day testing thursday and friday. We had to do a ems skill, take a written test and 8 different Fire Suppression manipulatives. We got our report card back today and if you cant tell by the way im smiling now, i passed every skill that we had to do. Your girl got zero deficiencies, so i am very proud of myself of being able to pass. You know, our saying is we dont fail people, they fail themselves. We give them all the information they need. We allow them extra hours prior to the start of class and stay late after hours, and we hope they take advant nl if they need help. They vocalize when they dont know something and part is ego. If i want to pass the class i need to ask for help. There is no slowing down. Once the training is moving it isnt stopping for anybody. You are on the training or off. We dont have time to stop. We want them to pass, but they have to have their heart into it. If they think it will be easy that isnt the way it works. I want to speak about what happened on september 22, 2022, which was week 14 i believe. Week 14 or 13. There was a big moment for me, because it was the week that i got injured. I had the ladder not completely fall on me, but it put my body in such a way it basically injured my shoulder. I had a little nerve damage coming from the top of my right shoulder radiating down. From what i remember, the ladder was coming down and a sudden movement it swerveed one way and swerved back and i remember i couldnt feel my right arm. I tried to hold on to the ladder and it just basically just hit me in a certain position, and i fell over, and i remember feeling a combination of so much pain and honesty nothing at all. She had a pretty good scare of a injury, and her determination and just the way she goes about things. She is not very demon struative or outspoken but works hards and puts herinose nose down and just works. [music] so, today is our last day in the academy. I think there is a lot of things going through my mind right now. On one hand, i feel incredibly relieved to be at this point. It has been a long 5 months. It has been great, but it has been really challenging and definitely really tiring, so it feels really relieving to have reached this mileston. We graduated friday and just feels really exciting. You know, speaking for myself, i think im preoccupied worrying about starting work soon, but i think for my family and my partner, im excited for them to be at graduation. This is not just a journey i have been on, but a journey they have been on as well. Especially my partner. She has been immensely supportive of me throughout this process. On the other side of the coin, it is nervewracking we go out in the field and do the job. It is mixed emotions for sure. Super excited. It has been a long long 16 weeks, and at the end i finally get to graduate, get to be a firefighter. Im looking forward to most is taking our time at Treasure Island and bring into effect to help people. So many things that are going on in my mind at the moment because of the fact today is the last day that we are actually on our training grounds on Treasure Island. I cant believe im actually here and i made it these 5 months. Getting in here doing the best i could possibly do, but now it is graduation is just so close. Im just nervous. I created this family within the 130 Academy Class where we have gotten to know each other and gotten to do skills together, but now when i go to my probationary home, now i will get to know those people and learn so many more skills and just get all the hands on experience and you know, create that second family. It has been overwhelming. Just the amount of support that i have received. My family is my core and is my biggest support system and they have been there and have just expressed unconditional love and support every step of the way. [music] good morning 130. I know this is a exciting day for you, and this is just one of the many milestones in your career. I am really proud of the division of training and im proud of you, 130. You took the lead and you worked hard. You worked as a team and thats how we always do it in the San Francisco Fire Department. This is a Proud Department with a proud history. We fight fires like no other Fire Department. We are Community Paramedicine and alternatives to policing. We are firefighter emt, firefighter paramedics, but we are so much more as you are going to find out during your careers. I do solemnly swear, that i will support and defend, the counsitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of california, against all enemies foreign and domestic. Today i graduated from San Francisco 130 recruit class, and i became a San Francisco firefighter. I feel absolutely amazing. I thought about how i feel graduating, but feeling it is crazy. Im so so excited to get started. I will be in station 9 in the bayview. Industrial part of the city and im extremely excited to do everything the truck does. Learn how to raise and lower the aerial. Get to all the different ladders and practice them in real life and apply them to situations that we are seen in the academy, but to see them in real life will be a brand new thing. [applause] going up to the stage to get my badge, i was thinking about how sweaty my hands were. I was trying not to trip, and but in realty i was just thinking about how special the moment it was, and to be honest, it felt like everything stood still for a second, and it was a special time to reflect on the journey. I feel proud of my class mates making to graduation. I feel a lot of love towards my classmates and lot of respect and admuration towards the instructors. It feels good to be at this point after 21 weeks of hard work. I would say i felt an immense amount of pride for what she accomplished. Having been along the ride, before academy, being a part of the journey that lead up to interviews and then academy and getting to this point. I know how much she has overcome and accomplished. So proud. Im so proud of you. [calling out name] to be honest, i am had a ball of emotions just running through me right now. It is like electric energy. To have all the overwhelming support from my family, from my friends, from everybody in the department, and from Oakland Department as well is truly just overwhelming and very emotional at the same time. Hoping ethe whole thing is surreal to me. She pinned the badge on me when she was 15 years old and coming to today and seeing where she is at now, i couldnt possibly be more proud. She has a heart of passion. She has a lot of heart. When i saw him up there, it was just overwhelming. I was like, i will not cry, i will not cry. I tried to hold it back, it just couldnt. The chief says, who will cry first. Who will cry first . Okay. indiscernible im supposed to be tough. Man the last time i like to introduce the newest bravest San Francisco firefighters, 130 [applause] so, im now at station 9 on the truck. In the bayview. Junk yard dog. The day before graduation was to ask questions what we are supposed to do and probationary firefighter instead of recruit. My first day was november 22. It was i was one of the lucky ones. I had my full weekday. I had 4 days after graduation to get my mind right, get ready to go to work. Our instructors complaint us in the dark so we wouldnt know what to expect so when we got here, its how we adapt to a situation, not so muchthis is what will happen. This is what you need to do. I was kind of freaking out before i really havent been in a fire station before, and every Single Member was super welcoming here. I think the most important thing is being yourself. Knowing when to contribute and when to kind of sit back and listen, because there is a wealth of knowledge around you everywhere. Everywhere. I could talk to any person in the station and learn so much. I think i have been able to hold on to what people have been telling me a lot more here and learn a lot more in a lot less time. Transitioning from graduation to being a probationary firefighters coming with a lot of changes. You learn the tower and skills and information and once you get thin field you realize how all those people come together in real time, which has been super cool to see how it all unfolds in the field. I have been super lucky. I got placed at station 17 on engine 17 and i have just been super fortunate to have a really great group of folks to work with, who put in a lot of time and energy to help get me up to speed. I say with i first started the academy and was nervous and excited. There is a element of nervousness with being a probationary firefighter because you are trying to keep up and learn as much as you can. I say from the academy till now there is also a lot of confidence building that happened. The first two months what really stuck out to me is just how tight nit the station is and how much people really care about the work that they do and really pushes me i think to be better at the job. Apparently im a probationary firefighter for the San Francisco Fire Department, so the last 5 months i was in the tower in the academy lead me to here of drilling, testing, requiring all the basic Foundation Skills to become a firefighter. Now im actually actively doing it, but more specifically at the current house im stationed at, which is station 10, i am also the role of emt because we are on a als unit where there is a paramedic so im the paramedic backup providing them whatever they need as their assistant, but when it comes to fires im the one with the nozzle to put out the fire. Me and my main concern is getting through probation because i dont have job security at the moment, because you can be let go any time if you are not meeting the expectations of what it is that they require from you. I want to be good at what im here to do in the position im in now. The call volume i have seen during my watchs are 7 to 10 calls within a day, which is pretty moderate. Im just waiting for my first fire. [laughter] indiscernible step on it and measure at the shoulder. We talk about being a model to other agencies, again we hire very diverse group. Male and female. As long as you meet the standards and are able to take care of the business of the Fire Department and Public Safety and being able to get along with your coworkers and all these stressful environments is key. You are not a individual here. We are made up as a team, so you have to be willing to listen. You have to be willing to learn, and you have to be willing to push yourself all the way to the end and youll be successful here in San Francisco. People ask, you just go to fires andno, we go to everything. Anything and everything 911 is called. It depends on the person and where they are at. We invite everybody to come try if they think they can get here, then by all means, we are a great department. Large department. Busy department, and we have a lot of things to see while working here. Best job in the world to this day. We prep them as best we can. All the experiences and instructors and myself, we again our job is to see themwe want to see them be successful. We want to hear good reports. It is like being a parent. I are want to make sure when they leave we want to hear good things and if we dont want also want to check and make sure, what happened . I want to hear from now the probationary firefighter what happened and how we can best support them, because they are not recruits anymore. They are professional probationary firefighters and just because they left the tower doesnt mean we are done with them. Im more invested in them now now that they are my brother and sister then a recruit because i could be working with them in the field. I found a career i absolutely hundred percent love. It is very rare that you you can find a profession that you can love that much. Im a public servant. I never want to forget the roots of what we do. We serve the citizens of San Francisco. Im serving the citizen of San Francisco now by training new firefighters. By job is best prepare them what they will be going to into the future. In the Community Whether we are driving around, we are on a call, or shopping, the way that the Community Looks at us and looks at me is kind of surreal, because it hasnt fully sunk in. Sometimes i have to reflect and say, you made it here. Be proud of yourself. Be proud of your accomplishments because for me i want to strive and do more and be better. [siren] i would say first of all, we dont just employ firefighters, we employ everybody on the ambulance. Emt and paramedics. Firefighters and ems is a great opportunity. It is really important we have people who look like the community we are serving and thats part of the reason many joined this department to create change from the inside and we have done a lot of that and we will continue to do that. There is a place for you here as a ems, as a paramedic, as a firefighter. You just need to be able to put in the work. This is a big deal being in Public Safety in San Francisco working for the San Francisco Fire Department. It is a commitment. What better place if you want to serve your community then the San Francisco Fire Department . [music] [siren] government audit and Oversight Committee meeting this morning at 10 00 am. , thursday, march 7,